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THE MARTIAL (^KAVHS 

OF OUR 

FALLEN HEROES 

liN 

Santiago cie Cuba 



BY 

HKNRY C. McCOOK, D. D., Sc. D. 

(Jiaphiin Second Regiment Pennsylvania \'olunteers, United States 
Army, during the Spanish-American War 



[Philadelphia 

GEORGE W. JACOBS & CO. 

1899 

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Copyright by 

Henry C. McCook 

1898 

TWO COPIES RECEIVED. 



SECOND "OPY, 






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ilo llio 

illToniorii of the hcroi: ^)o>.^^ 

in a v£onfli:t 

for 

iMinuniitii 



Chapter I 

INTRODUCTORY: 

How this Book Came to Be Made 



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FRKEDOM, claim that is thine own ! 

Thou badst him in the deathful strife 

To yield for thee and thine a life, 
And thy command is done I 

So freely, bravely did he give ; 
And life for life is rightful wage, 
Thou owest it thro' the Eternal age 

To l)id his memory live. 

O t'lRAVE, revere thine honored trust I 
Most precious gift that mortal gives, 
Most precious that the earth receives, 

A hero's sacred dust ! 

Keep well thy charge, till from on high 

The Angels sound the Reveille 
To wake the dead from Earth and Sea, 
Then yield him to the sky 1 

O Comrades, by this honored clay. 
To stand for just and ec|ual laws. 
For Freedom' s land and Freedom' s cause 

Renew your vows to-day I 

There 1 sad yet hopeful lay him down 

'Tis but a step that marks the space 

From this — the soldier's resting place 
To von— the fadeless crown I 




Introductory: How this Book Came to Be Made 

|.\ the 19th of Inly, 1S9S. the \vrit<T of thcsr rrcords 
sailed U)r Santiago d(,- Cuba, as a nieniber ot a sj)ccial 
committee from the National Relief Commission. 
The purpose was to carry supplies to sick soUliers 
of the I'ifth Army Corps at that point, to establish a relief 
agency, and to report concerning the actual ncetls of thr men. 
For this duty he had been detachetl by the Secretary of War 
from the Second Regiment of Pennsylvania W)lunteers. of which 
he was Chaplain. The committee arrived July 25th on the 
U. S. S. Reso/utc, Captain Eaton commanding, having rec<-ivcd 
from him and his officers considerate attention during the 
voyage. 

While moving through the various camps centering around 
the historic battlefield of San Juan, observations were made 
of the condition of the graves of our fallen heroes. I'"or the 
most part the slain were burietl where they fell, or in {)ositions 
cjuite near thereto. Whenever the boilies could be identihetl. 
some effort had been made to mark the graves. Considering 
the nature of the countr)-, the e.xigencies of battle, ami the fact 
that many of the killed fell while lying or ski/mishing in th«' 
thick jungle of tropical bushes, or in the tall, rank grass, or 
among the wild running ground-vines it is not strange that the 
burial parties sent out after the conflict coultl not always identify 
the dead. Recog-nition was made mor«- dit'hcult by the fact that 



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/IDartial Graven 



the men. oppressed by the terrible heat, had cast away parts ot 
their clothino-. and thus removed evidence of their identity. 

Only three weeks had intervened since the interment, yet 
it was evident that the rapid growth of tropical plants would 
soon hide the places of burial (See Figs, i, 4, 5), and that the 
torrential rains would efface the writings hastily made upon the 
rudely constructed markers, which of necessity were dim and. 
even at that period, in some cases, difficult to decipher. Num- 




j.i^r_ I— Grave of Daniel Lotieroa,,, ,jt/i C\ S. Infantry, on the bank of the A:^uadores, near 

Bloody Bend. 
/.>V. 2— a raves of Cor pour Is Wallace and Graffln, on the Sunken A'oad, edge of Battle Plain. 

bers of graves were in or close by roads and liable to be 
obliterated by current traffic ( I'ig. 2), or on the banks ot the 
streams that thread the valley in which the conflicts occurred, 
and thus were liable to be overfiowed and the marks completely 
effaced. Moreover, it was even then evident that the comrades 
of th(' dead and the burial parties who entombed them, would 
soon be removed from the vicinity, and transferred to other 
situations upon the Island or to the United States. Strangers 
indifferent or hostile to our cause and name, would occupy the 
fields honored bv the valor and consecrated by the death and 



1f."»o\v tbit? .iGooh Came to ;iL>c ni>a^c n 

burial of our heroes. 1 luis, il seciucd ine\iuiljle that the 
perishaljle records left li\' the conirachs of ih«- dead would soon 
be destroyed. 

Ii\er\' sentiuieiU ot palriotisiii, jusiiic and L;<'U<rosity cried 
out aL;ainst such a result. ( )ur hearts wen- burdeiiecl with care 
tor the lixiuL;. The sick and wounded deinandeil hrst iIioul^Iu. 
but in our L;rc-at, wealtlu' and prosperous repuljlic it seemed to 
the writer that there was enough and mnvr. than enouj^di of 
influence, acti\ it\' and nione\- to create and preserve iiniolate a 
soldiers' cemetery tor the tallen heroes ot' th(j Army of Santia_u;(>. 
it it were not tound practicable to remoxc the remains to their 
nati\-e land. It was his thought that plots ot" the battlel'ickl 
shouKl at once be prepared on which every L^ravc sliould l)e 
duK' located : and that proper niarkci-s shouM !)<• sent out on 
which the names ot the tallen should be plainl\- i)aiiUed. with a 
\iew to maintainin;^ the identit\- until more substantial head- 
boards could be erected.'^' 

On the 5th ot" .Xu-ust the author returneii tVom Saiuiai^'o 
to Philadcli)hia. ( )n the da\- tollowin_L;-. Aui^iist Otii. he visiltrtl 
Washington, anil duriuL; a ((Uiterence with the PresiileiU of the 
United States with which he was honored, stated the* facts 
concerniiiL;- the Martial ( iraxcs ot" our j-allen 1 b-roes in tin- 
neiL^h])orhood of Santiago. i he br<'sident took a slip of paper 
t"ro!U the table before him and immediatel\- wrote the lollowin;^ 
order and sent it Iw nu'sseiiL^cr to the Secn-tary ol War: 

" Ordered — Ih.it the -raves of our soldiers at Santiago 
sliall b<- permaneiuK- marked. Vhr i)resent markin.i^ will last 
but a short lime, and bel(M-e its etVacement occurs, suitable and 
permanent markers should be put up. The Secretary of War 
is charL^ed w'.th the e.xecutioii of this order." (Fio^. 3.) 

* See a comimmication printed in the rhiladcljihia Pnss o( August 8, lS?8. 



EXECUTIVE MANSION. 

WAS H IN CTON 



Ordered - that the graves of our soldiers at Santiago 
shall be pernanently marked. The present markirs will last but a 
sh.ort time, and before its effacement occurs, suitable and perma- 



nent markers should be put up 



The Secretary of War is charged with Che execution of 



this order. 




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Aup^ust sixth, 189B . 




Fig 3. 



l-'ac-simiU of President McK'inley s original order concerning the marking of soldiers' graces. 



l^ow tlMt> .iLu"^oh Came to ;iSc /H^a^c I'-i 

This prompt, kind response to the first prcsciilatioii of tlu- 
facts, so characteristic, and indicati\c of noble api>reciation of 
the service of the dead and of sympathy with moiirniiv^r friends. 
was the he^innin^ ol one of tlie most remarkal)h- incidents in 
warhire. It was tlu* tirst stcj) toward tlu- restoration. li\- national 
authority at public expense, of nu)re than a thousanil soldiers 
who had fallen in toreig^n service, for home burial in thi-ir native 
land. It was tliis order which contributed lari^ely to place the 
writer under the conditions out of which this xolnnu- has L^rown. 
I volunteered to return to Cuba for duty amon^- the sick, ant! to 
make such provision as I could to carry out the order concerning 
the dead. Before leaving- the Executive Mansion I was sv.ni for 
by Geiu-ral Al::4('r. the Secretary of War. aiul when 1 j)aid m\ 
respects to him. learned that .drcady the I'residcnt's order had 
been tele^n'aphed to General Shafter. I renewed to the Secre- 
tary my offer to return to Cuba for special duty. The offer was 
accepted with many kind expressions, and the next day. AuL^ust 
7th, I received an order a[;ain tletachin^- me from the .Sec(»iul 
Pennsylvania Regiment of I'nitt^d States Volunteers, of which 1 
had the honor to be Chaplain, and appointing me to duty in 
Santiai^o with the sick or •• for such other service as I mij^dit be 
assigned to." Tlu- personal understandiuL: with the Secretar\-. 
as also with the President, was that 1 should uiuhrlake whatever 
service opened before me to the adxanta^e ol the soldiers and 
of the country, and that I should take such steps as opportimily 
permitted to locate and designate the graves of oin^ fallen 
heroes. 

Accordingl)-. I embarked upon the }'(f/r on the iilh of 
August, arrived in Santiago on the 15th. and at once- reported 
to Maj.-Gen. Shafter. That officer r(xeived me courteously. 
but declined to extend anv assistance in the matti-r of identi- 



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/iDartial Graves 



hiiiL,^ the graves of the slain, inasmuch as the h'ifth Army Corps 
was engaoed in embarking for home, and ah the energies of 
the command were recjuired to attend to the living; and that 
the dead would not be injured by remaining until later in the 
season for such honors as were due to them. I bowled to this 




Gta-'i's of PrivaUs John Boo/h and l\'iii. l'r,gcr, jist X. Y. Vols., on 
Aguadores Road, near Bloody Bend, almost concealed by ivlld -rines. 

decision, of course, but expressed my determination, neverthe- 
less, without calling upon headcpiarters for aid, to prosecute 
this part of my duty also. I was immediately assigned by Gen. 
Shafter to the staff of Chief Surgeon Havard to aid in the care 
of the sick, and at the recjuest of Gen. Leonard Wood, the 



Ibow tlMi> .iLu"^ol; Came to ;iL>c nDa^c i"» 

Military Governor, was i;iven the cliit\' o\ reijru;ani/inL;- the Civil 
or Municipal Hospital at Santiaj^o, in which larj^-e ninnhers of 
the nali\c Cubans were suflerinj^' from the series ot ei)i(lemics 
that attlicted iht- unliappy town, and which hadl hccn lar-;cly 













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Ki.;. 5 
Gm-i'es of Pri-'ata Booth ami l'r(t;£r after bein^ cUarcd of xvi'.d -.iius 

the result of the unfortunate exotlus to Caney when the 
was thri^atenecl with bombardment. 

W hen this duty was completed I lH-_L;an my visits t( 
xarious battlefields accompanied l)y my interpreter, I\e\ . I 
C. Astwood and by a Sj)anish-Cuban photographer supplied 



city 

) the 
I. C. 
with 



1^' fniartial Graves 

a held camera. M\- kodac and sketch-book were also brought 
into service, and thus a large number of photographs and 
drawings of the gra\-es. cemeteries, battlefields and surround- 
ing scenery, with maps showing locations, were procured. 

Before my plans had been completed Mr. 1 ). H. Rhodes 
arrived from Washington with orders from Gen. Ludington, the 
head of the Quartermaster's 1 )e[)artment, to locate and mark 
the gra\es of buried officers and men of the battlefields ot San- 
tiago de Cuba. He brought with him competent assistants and 
eight hundred wooden headboards. I had made arrangements 
widi Captain Gonzales, of the Quartermaster's Department at 
Santiago, to attend to this tlut)-, but the arri\al of Mr. Rhodes 
upon the field reliexed both that officer and m\self from further 
responsibility. It was soon manifest that a more thoroughly 
efficient man for the work to which he was assigned could not 
possiljly have been found. He entered upon his duties with a 
fidelity, zeal and intelligence that promised the best results. 
The difficulties before him were ereat. The condition of the 
so-called roads ; the character of the climate ; the risk of 
exposure to various forms of disease ; the vexing obstructions 
ot tropical plants that had to be penetrated ; the rixers and 
streams to be crossed without bridges, and when crossed becom- 
ing torrents by sudden down-pours, thus holding the traveler in 
unwilling detention until the fiood subsided ; the fact that the 
grax'es were widel\- scattered and often overgrown b\' wild \ ines, 
which made their recognition difficult and sometimes impossiljle ; 
ami the tiu'ther fact that no information could be obtained as to 
thtnr location, inasmuch as the comrades of the dead had already 
left the field for America — all presented a series of difficulties 
which can be appreciated fully only by one who has faced them 
as I had alreadxdonc. The hi^jhest credit is due to Mr. Rhodes 



^bo^v thu- :iL\-^oh Camc to .iSc /Il^a^c i: 

ior llu. valuable service which h.^ ihiis n-ndere.l the ( iov.-mment 
and the friends of the dead in i.rcs.rvin^ ihr niem..rl(.s ..f oiir 
lalhn heroes. The greater portion of his work traversed the 
held over which I had ah-eady -one. Ihit parts which I did n«.t 
visit were visited by liini. and whc-n arrested in my work by fever 
I left Santia-o with the conviction that cv.-rythinu- possible to be 
done woiiltl l)e accomphshed. 

1 returned from Santiago September 23. 1898. and as soon 
thereafter as my health would permit, re,)orted in person to the 
Secretary of War at Washington. A brief statement of what 
I had done was placed before him. and I suggested that it would 
be a valuable contribution to the history of the campaign in 
Santiago de Cuba I^-ovince if the department should pubh-.^h the 
detruled neon! of my investigations, together with the photo- 
graphs and sketches of grave.s. plans (,f cemeteries and maps 
of the battlehelds which I had made. This was not ordered 
on the ground that there were no funds available for this pur- 
pose. Under the circumstances, not willing that my labor 
should be wholly lost to the memory and to the friend.s of the 
fallen heroe.s. I resolved to undertake the publication of du- 
material which I had accumulated. 

Moreover, I was convinced that such publication would be 
a valuable contribution to the history of the cami.aign. My 
studies of the localities and drawings, photograi.hs ancrmaps o'f 
the same, together with the lists and charts n\ .Mr. Rhodes, pre- 
sented a record of the battlefields in Santiago de Cuba as they 
appeared after the conflicts, which (as far as" I have been able to 
ascertain) is unicpic in military history. It is almost certain that 
no foughten helds have ever been .so promptly an.l thomnghly 
studied with a direct view to locating and depicting the points 
at which the combatants fell and were buried, as'well as the 



1^ /l!>nrtial Oravc5 

rude methoils of soldiers to honor and identify the burial places 
of their comrades. The results preserxed in this volume, added 
to the material in the (Quartermaster's Department, give the 
I'nited States War Office a survey of the tields of conflict 
around Santiago In the days immediately following- the battles, 
which is as nearh' correct as human observation is apt to attain. 
From this standpoint, at least, the contents of this book are not 
only of current interest but of permanent historic value. 

It is, perhaps, needless to state that the publication has 
not been undertaken as a business enterprise. One copy of 
the book is to be sent without cost to the parent, wife, child or the 
nearest of kin of every soldier and sailor who fell in the battles 
around Santiago, or who died trom the effects ot wounds or 
sickness and was buried in Cul)a. d his gift has been provided 
for by the Auxiliary Society of the National Relief Commission 
of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, of 
which the author has the honor to be pastor. Some books of 
the limited edition have been put on sale in order that public 
libraries, collectors of war literature and friends of the honored 
dead may obtain copies. Whatever profit may result from 
these sales will go to meet the expenses of publication, which 
have been assumetl b\' the author. 

Already man\- of the heroes whose graves are herein 
described or figured have been removed b)' friends to the 
United States and reburied. While this volume is passing 
through the press (March, 1899), '^ government (expedition has 
sailed on the transpcM't Jxouniauiaii with suitable force and 
furnishings from the (Quartermaster's Department to disinter 
the remains ot all the dead in Cuba and Porto Rico, and restore 
them at the Nation's exjjense for honorable sepulture in their 
native land. This munilic(-nt act must excite the gratitude of 



t>o\v tbii? Booh Came to JBc /lDa^c 19 

the frieiids ot the lallcii, and shoiikl awaken lh<- kindliest 
feelings ot ever)' patriot towards the .Administration wliith lias 
directed it, as it has already e\uked the ailmiratioii and uondrr 
of foreigners. Xotwitlistandini^- this fact, the writt^r has jhx-- 
served the fonn ot his oriL^inal notes, and throughout the 
Nolunie, in desi-rihini;' llie Imnal |)Iac('s, coninionK' sp'-aks of 
the deatl as still thi-rcin, and o! ihcn- scpuUhres as they were 
seen 1)\- him. 1 his has \H-cn done lari^ely as a matter ot 
personal convenience. allhou_L;h somewhat, also, to preserve 
the tone ot a current description of existiuij;' objects. Yet, 
after all, this form is not wholK' inaccurate, tor onl\' the hony 
systems of our tallen heroes will rest in home iL^rave-s. I he 
soil of Cuba retains the sacred remaimler. and this tart must con- 
tinue to Liive the battlefields of Santiago a peculiar interest and 
lionor, not on]\ to Amt-ricans, but to all triends ot hree Cuba. 




I'll). 125 — See Chapter \'III. 

Grave of Captain Capron of (he Rough Riders, at Si/ioiiev. 

(From Scribner's Magazine, Copyright, 1S99, by permission of Charles Srriljner's Sons.) 



Chapter 11 

Soldiers' Methods of Decoratin-j; their 
Comrades' Graves 



H 



A 



E needs no tears who lived a noble life I 

We will not weep for him who died so well. 

But we will gather round the hearth, and tell 
The story of his strife ; 

Such homage suits him well, 

Better than funeral pomp or passing bell. 

¥iTZ Jamics O'Bkif.x, 

Xn now he rests ; his greatness and his sweetness 

No more shall seem at strife ; 
And death has moulded into calm completeness 

The statue of his life. 
Where the dews glisten and the song-birds warble. 

His dust to dust is laid 
In Nature's keeping with no pomp of marble 

To shame his modest shade. 

John Gki:i:nli:af Whittiek. 



Soldiers' Methods of Decorating their Comrades' 

Graves 




111"^ methods practiced l)y soldiers in decorating; the 
'praxes of their comrades present an interesiiiiL;' 
stiuh'. The observer notes a yencral similarity ol 
style, both in the regular and volunteer service. lUit 
a closer study shows much indivitluality. as if the taste or 
judgment or suggestion of one man had regulatetl the mode ot 
marking and decorating the gnucs of an entire regimi-nt or ot 
a whole section. Circumstance-s also have controlKd this 
matter, as they ha\e the place 
of interment. Vov the most 
part the men who fell in action 
have had their gra\es tlesig- 
nated carefully by their com- 
rades, or by burial parties 
delegated to the sad duty (^t 
caring for the dead. Some- 
times there appears e\ en 
greater care in suitabK' mark- 
ing the bodies of those who 
fell in action than ol those 
who (lieil in the hosj)itals and 
who were thus removed trom 
the personal care ot company 




iMC. 6 

.-/ ,;n/u or slo»e-i-<r.ereJ grare I'j uul-nown 
soldiet . 



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/IDartial Graven 



tVientls and coiiirades. In the latter regard, however, differ- 
ences are manifest according- to the temperament of the 
surgeon or hospital steward in control. In some of the hospital 
cemeteries every grave is distinctly marked with the name of 
its inmate. In others, burials were made in an extremely care- 
less wa)-, and little or no attention paid to the condition ot the 
graves or to securing identification of the bodies within. 1 hese 
facts show the lack of s)-stem. There seemed to be no official 

recognition ot the 
importance oi mark- 
ing the graves of the 
fallen. The service 
was wrought by vol- 
untary care ot com- 
rades ; or l)y hospital 
workers and burial 
parties already over- 
burdened with duties 
j.-,^. and exhausted by 

l^'ire entangUmetit on the eastern suburbs of Santiago. rigllting', Or enieebletl 

Dra7i<n from a photograph. |^Y gickne.SS 

.M()\ ing o\t;r the lield of battle one observes small fenced 
enclosures of barbed wire hung upon sticks. These enclosures 
mark the graves of American soldiers who lell in action. Ihe 
barbed wire was taken from the fences and entanglements 
erected by the Spaniards at various points of ai)proach to their 
fortifications, and which had to l)e penetrated by our soldiers 
before the final charge ui)on the fortified hills. (Fig. 7-) The 
sticks and wires that were largel\- instrumental in accomplishing 
the destruction of their comrades, were thus used for securing 
their graves from desecration and obliteration by passing men 
and Ijeasts. 




W^*Mi[ 



IDccovatino Conu*a^ci>' Cnavci^ -•'> 

'Hicre was L^rcat lack of material for toriiiiiiL;' hcatlboards 

an<l fooilioards, and much \ariciy is seen in diis. Cracker boxes 

_^ and ammunition boxes furnished 
-J] 

most of the material used, in some 

cases these were covered with tin 

sheetiuL;. < ^n in(|uirin;4- wlumct: 
this material had Ix'en obtainetl, I 
was informed that the Spaniards 
had used sht-ets of tin or zinc to 
mark the ran^'e <>f \arious points 
of ai)proach surrounding;' the torti- 
V^\ tied heii;hts. These were placetl on 
trees or on bushes, at the crossinj^ 
of roads and elsewhere in the oix-n. 
and. olitteriiiL:' in tlie simliL;ht. indi- 
cated the tlistance ot troops jiiss- 
int)" near th(Mii to otheers (^t th<' 




lie 8 

Ilcaill'oard at Grn-'f of Lieut. -Col. 

I/iimilton, foot of Kettle Hill. 



various Spanish companies, thus enaliliuL; 
them to i^ixe the ran^'e accurately to the 
tu-im;- lines. 1 lere. ai^ain, the enem\- hir 
nished material to our men tor markin- 
the iX''^^'^-'' o' their slain comrades, 'these 
tin sheets were bent over bits of boards, and 
the name, company and death date w i-re 
punched into the metal with a nail, a stone 
probably bein^- used as a hammer ( Ml^-. S). 
Some of the mortuary details were cut 
upon cur\'ed rooting' tiles or bi'ieks lakc-n 
trom the block-houses or other buildings 
that had been destroyed for th-ewood or tor 
souvenirs (Im^s. 9. 10). The bits ot cracker 
and ammunition boxes were nailed cross- 




Tile murker on Albert 
Tcnehn^s grave, San 
/ll.llt /'/./<v. 



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/IDavtial Graves 



Avise upon stakes cut ivoiu siirrouiulinL;- trees or taken from the 
wire entanglements, forming- cruciform headboards. .Some ot 
these were carved with a good deal of care (Fig. i i ), and the 
crosses, scrolls and mottoes upon them showed the solicitude 



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bn lo 
Grci'i'e of Pri-ratt' Paul A. drange)-, marked zviih a si/tiai'C Itle, foot of Sail /:ian /\'/di;c. 

ot loN'ing hands. No douljt these were done in the interval 
after the battles of |uly ist and 2d, pending the negotiations 
for peace. In a number ot cas(;s, trees standing hard by the 
graves were used as markc^rs, the bark being trimmed off and 
inscriptions made upon the clean white surface. A notable 
exami)le is seen in the record made by the men of the 25th 
Infantry (colored) at Caney, of which a full-page drawing is 
given in place. In anotJKM" case three graves wvvv. placed on 
three? se\eral sides of a tree and radiating therefrom. No 
headboards or other marks were used, but on the trunk of the 
tree just above each grave a tablet was tormed by hewing off 



IDccovatino Comra^Ci:^' Oiavc: 



'>7 



tile liark, and on iIkm' the insc ri])li<>ii was placed. 1 h<- nainr 
aiul c<)ini)an\- rank were llnis oijposiic tin- head ol every L^ravc' 
(\''\'j^. 12). Xiiinliers ot the L;ra\(S \V(M-e entirely C()\ered willi 
the white limestone rocks and kowlders which ahoiind in lh<* 
ncighborhootl (Imo-s. 6, i6). This was e\itlently done to pro- 
tect the bodies from the attacks of \iiUnres and beasts oi pre\-, 
as they were of necessity conmionly laid in shallow L;raves. 
In other cases, the mounds were simply edged with stones, the 
thought being to dt;limil the boundaries, and. ])erhaps. also 
with the idea of decoration. .Soiuc gra\cs were wholly coveretl 
with broken bits of tiles from adjoining houses. .Some were 
bordered with biicks set upon cdo^tt or laid llat, and large brick 
tiles were used as head ami footstones. on which wen- cut or 
scratched the inscriptions that designated the bodi(*s within. 
Many graves were ornamented in \arioiis ways by thrusting 
cartridges or the empty shells of cartridges into the moun<l. 
lea\ing the llat circular caps to show against the soil. 1 he 
most common decoration was. ot coiu'se, the cros^^. .\ word. 
such as •• I'eatc." would be thus loi-med along the entire length 
of the grave. The iuuials "K. I. 1'.." oi' the whole words, 
''Requiescit in i)ace," w^ere used. O.i one group ot graves 
the ornamentations were formed of a species ol white fresh- 
water shell dug up from the gra\<ll\- soil, numbers ot which 
were scattered around. ('specialU in the neighbo-.-hotul ot the 
rille pits and trenches on the ridges. A tew graxes had sodded 
edges. In a number of cases, little groui)S ot graves were 
found, lorming small burial plots or cemeteries, scattcretl here 
and there tlu-oughout the \ alley. rh«-se usually marked the 
nei'^hliorhood of a hospital. In a number of cases, in order to 
sav(^ the digging of graves, which wa^ not an easy task in the 
hard. pebbK' crc-sts of the ridges and hilU. the trenches and 



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runways made In" Spanish soldiers were used for burial pur- 
poses. This was especially the case in the General Field 
Hospital, to the northeast of Santlaoo, near the Spanish Bar- 
racks Reina Mercedes, where sixty-six bodies were burled, one 
after another, in the riHe pits and runways on the brow of the hill. 












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mi': 



''Ik 




ih'i-'e of Jiio. J. Kieniaii, at Bloody Bein/, s/i07oin;^- inscription cai ved on box lid and also on 

an overhangijig tree. 

One decoration of these martial graves which attracted 
especial attention was the campaii^ii hat. The writer is free to 
admit that he has always regarded this head covering as about 
the most unsightly that could possibly be devised. When 
placed upon the heads of our soldiers, as commonly w^orn, it 






















I*- >*'- 






'■'-"■-/'MiJ-;. 

^\'(7. / V\r,. 12 .\"(7. ^ 

Graves 0/ Sc-rgi. Kol>ert Boyk {No. /), Private II'. //. /in-ers {.Vo. j) ,itiJ Musician lerreHcr 

McDonald, all of the ijth I \ S. Infantry, with inscnf>fious cut into a tree. 



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produces a remarkably grotesque effect. One sees it with 
the brim cocked up in front, or cocked up behind, or at one 
side, or at the other si(h\ or at all sides. He sees the crown 
smashed down tlat, parted lon^itudinalh- in the middle, pinched 
up in a i)eak, or rounded uj) lik(* a sug'ar loaf, with divers dates, 
names and figures scrawled upon the crown and brim. Then, 
again, it is worn low down upon the face, or pushed high up 
and carried on the back of the head, or thrust jauntily upon one 
side or the other of the head. Take it all in all, and in all its 
var)-ing phases, it has seemed to the writer as unmilitary and 
ungainly an object as it is possible to concei\e. 

I)ut his feeling changed when he stood upon the battlefield 
of .San Juan, and saw that the comrades of the dead while 
l)ur\ing their friends and fellow-soldiers had laid them to rest 
with their uniform upon them, as they fell, yet had preserved 
the old campaign hat. Wdien the earth was rounded up above 
the silent bosom of the gallant dead, the hat which he used to 
wear was placed above him. for the most part just above the 
breast, wlun-e often he used to hold it as he slept. As one 
notes this touching incident, the unsightly mud-stained and 
sometimes blood-stained campaign hat seems to be evolved into 
a thing of glor\- and of Ijeauty. He will sympathize as never 
before with the sentiment which has made- that old, battered, 
ungainly campaign hat a true eml)lem of the valor and self- 
sacrifice ot those who fought and suffered and fell in the defence 
ot om- countr\-'s honor and our nation's Hag. Wdiile he gazes 
he will seem to hear \oices around him chanting the familiar 
words of .Mrs. Howe's I^^attle Hymn of the Republic: 

"hi the beaut\- of the lillies Christ was born across the sea 
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me. 
As 1 b- died to make men hol\', h-t us die to make men free. 
Our (lod is marchiiiL'' on." 



IDccoratnui Coinra^cf^' Oravct? 



I luis the caiiipaiL;!! iiat is iraii^lornicd iiUo .i licaulihil 
rinhlcin ot sell sat riticc ; ot palrintic devotion lo all thai iiicii 
hokl tlcarc.'si : of thai nohlc, hiiinaii and Chrisi-likc sj)iril wiiiiii 
leads our fellows lo la\' down their lives that other nations 
and other men nia\' eniox- ihe hlessir.jjs ot lite. lilx-rU' and the 











IMC. 13 

Grnve of Prh'ntc Linherg, foot of S.in Jiiiin A'ii/i^^c, iititrkcJ -with cartridges thrust into 

the- grouini. 

pursuit ot happiness. ( )n the dedicitory paL;c ot tills \oluine 
the author has written : " To t'ne Memory ot the I leroie I )ead 
in a Contlict tor 1 lumauit\-." This expresses his tirni eonviclion 
of the owM'inasterino- sentiment ot" hi countrymen that ani- 
mated the National Conor<'ss and warrantetl the I^resiileiit in 



82 /iDartial Graves 

waging- war with Spain. It is not to be wondered at that 
foreigners should tail to recognize this lact. But it is strange, 
indeed, that among our countrymen are men ot discernment 
in ordinary affairs who have not so read the Nation's heart. No 
doubt the destruction of the Maine in Havana harbor had an 
important part in precipitating the conflict. Ikit it was only as 
the touch upon the button that exploded the mine. The 
elements that made it possible and necessary for a great people 
widel\- sjjread across a continent, with an instant outburst ot 
righteous indignation, to rush to arms as Avith the mind ot one 
man, were formed and laid by a profound sympathy with the 
suft'erings of Cubans, and by a determined purpose to rescue 
them from oppression in the name of Humanity. 

A ladv dressed in mourning weeds came to see me in my 
Philadelphia home. Her sad errand was to gain information 
that would enable her to recover the body of her only son. He 
slept on a grassy slope beneath the tropical foliage of Cuba, 
eastward of the stone fort of El Caney, which the valor ot our 
soldic-rs won at such a dreadful cost. He was her only son ; 
indeed, her only child ; a bright, brave Christian youth, who 
graduated from West l^oint in the class of )une, just in time to 
perish while gallantly leading his men in the battle of July ist. 
\\ hen I came back from my second trip to Cuba, she learned 
through the i)ublic prints that part of ni)- errand had been to 
note and identify the martial graves of our tallen heroes, and 
she wrote me about her boy. I was able to send her a sketch 
ot the beautitul spot where he sleeps side b\' side with two 
ot his comrades, and now she had come to ask this further 
help. WHiile we talked together, with trembling voice and eyes 
filled witli tears, she cried : 

" ( )h I Dr. McCook, do vou believe that this was a war 



IDccoratnui Comva^ci?' Grave? 



33 



for luim;uiil\' .'' ll was so diftcrciU iroiii the Ci\il W ai" ! Il 
would be such a coinlort to be assured thai mv chiUl, the (»ul\- 
jewel of my home, had died for his fellow -men. Was it a war 
for humanity ? What do you think ?* " 

What could one tiiink or sa}'. other than a heart)' atlirma- 
ti\e ? Did not our President sa\' it to th(j representatives of 
European diph^macy j^ lias he not re-said it in all his i)ublic 
















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Fig. 14 

Griwe of Andre7i< Rydberg, Co. £.,S'^ ^ ■ ^- I>'f(i>'l''y- -^i'" .A"'" /»''"^'^. "<'''^' campaign hat 
The headboard of -ii'ood, a stone foot-iiiark(i\ the edges sodded and name en an adjoining tree. 

Utterances since ^ What other i)urpose had we in sendinL^" our 
sons to suffer and die b\- bullet and b\- fexer l)eneath the royal 
palms, an'd on the frowning- heii^hts. and in the L^rass-covered 
plains of Cuba, save to open {ox an oppressed people the L^ates 
of rational liberty and human L;overnment ? ^'es. our fleet 
sailed yonder .Southern Seas IxMieath the foKls of our national 
flag, but with another banner, held by ingel hands, hii^h above 
the Stars and Stripes. It was the white lla!.^- of Charity, the 



34 /iDartial Graves 

bannerol" hunianit)-. Let us not lower that tla^-. Let us not 
for a moment jjermit ourselves or permit others to sully the 
cause for which our L^allant soldiers died, by doubts of our 
national sincerity. Let us not pluck away the balm which 
comes to the hearts of the Nation's mourners from the belief 
that their loved and lost laitl down their lives upon the altar of 
humanity at the dictates of patriotism. 

The feeling" so strongly and patheticall)' exhibited by the 
soldiers of the; 1^'ifth Army Corps in behalf of their fallen com- 
rades, and the wish to ha\e their graves so distinctly marked 
that the bodies could be identified, was undoubtedly cherished 
concerning themscKes 'Lhis is illustrated by a touching inci- 
dent related to me by Col. Caleb Churchman, of Delaware, 
whose only son and onh' child was killed while directing the firing 
line of his comj^any l^efore the stone fort of ¥A Caney. Lieut. 
Churchman, of the 12th C S. Infantry, had been sick and was 
considered l)v the suroeon unfit for dutv. Notwithstandincr this, 
he insisted upon going into the fight, and sustained by the spirit 
and excitement of the confiict, led his men gallantly until he 
received his fatal wound. Before he died, he gave one of his 
fellow-officers a slip of paper upon which was written these 
words : " // bu)-icd here I desire grave plainly marked ^ I 
have reproduced this d\ing message, written u|)on the battle- 
field, as a fair ex[)ression of the feeling that animatc-d our 
soldiers as towards themselves as well as towards their com- 
rades. .Such an utterance as this is sufficient justification for 
the interest which our (iovernment has takc-n in designating the 
graves of our falh.-n heroes and restoring them, when possible, 
to their native ccmntry tor burial among friends and kindred. 
It certainly has animated die author in his wish to publish 
these memorials of the .Santiago battlefields as they were 



ITccovatinii Conira^ciV Gvavct^ 



fifi 



Iftl liy the vitlorioiis Aincricaii army, uilh ilu-ir tU-ail slccpiiis^- 
in the L;ra\('s where their heroic coinraih-s had laitl th(-m. 

Another ilhi^tralioii of tliis teelinL^- is rccordetl l.\- Mr. 
.Steplieii Honsall •• in a tonthin^- experience; which Ix-lell liiin 
alter the batth; ol .San |iian. I \ciitnre to repro(hic<- liis 
pathetic stor)- : 

" Many a stronL;' man wh pt \\kr. a chiKl, as, wandi-iMiiL; ahont 
the hillside, he cann; upon an imexpecte-tl ^ra\i' and read ii])on 









Fii;. 15 
Dying Afcssa^e of Liciil. Chiirchnian coucerning his griv.e. 

the; marker t]i(> name of a comrade witli whom the l)attle was 
o\er. I saw a lank ca\alr\man limpinL; down iIk- hillside, com- 
ing trom the trenches. 1 lis face was xcllow and wrinkled like 
a maple leat in the chill aiitumri air. His clotliiiiL;^ was caked 
with red clay from head to toot. I le sta_L;"_L;ered alon^- as ihoii^^h 
his k'L^s were not under the liest control and e\'ery now and 
then \\v. would sit down weariK' and rest, looking; about him 
with the sliL;htly al)ashed smile of a strong man who has l^i'owii 

* McClitre's Magnzitic for < ktober, i<^'<)S, " Tlie Fight fur SanCiajjo.' 



36 /iDartial Graves 

weak as a chiltl and does not exactly understand it. Under his 
arm he carried a Httle, unvarnished shingle, upon one side of 
which was stenciled the inspector's stamp. ' One thousand ball 
cartridoes,' and on the other side was cut by an unpracticed 

hand the inscription, ' Trooper of the Sixth Cavalry, 

killed in action July i. 189S.' 

" He sat down by my fire, burning- the letters deeper into 
the hard wood with the hot ashes, and then, pointing with a shy, 
awkward movement of the hand to the name upon the shingle, 
he said. ' He was my bunkie. and he's buried a piece down the 
road. He jomed at Tampa, coming from middle Georgia, 
where he had a hearthstone of his own and a six-horse farm. 
they say. Jkit he never had no luck. He never even got a 
blue ]:)louse to wear from the quartermaster, though no one was 
as craz)- for Uncle Sam's coat as he was. and the brass button 
he polished up and sent back to his girl the night before the 
battle, he borrowed it from me. And in the fight he was 
knocked over by the first bullet before we threw off our packs 
and got ready for the fun. There was a litde blue spot in his 
temple, and his lace twitched for a moment, as if he was trying 
to smile as I gave him his canteen, patted him on the shoulder, 
and went on ahead with the rest of the boys. Late that night 
I found him again. Well, we buried him ; that was all we could 
do lor him. And now I'xe been whittling away at this marker 
to put at his head, so that if his folks send for him or if Uncle 
Sam takes him home, there will be no mistake in the man.' 

" \\ e looked around for some minutes, but could not find 
the grave. The cavalryman seenuxl i)uzzled. and finally admit- 
ted that the place looked changed. Then 1 remembered a 
scene that I had thought I could never forget, and )'et which in 
a few hours had passed completely out of m)- mind. The grave 



IDccoratiiui Comra^C5' Cnavc£-> 37 

we wcrt; looking' tor had stood 1)\" tln' roadsidi-, and the star\'- 
iiiL;" r('!u^('(?s Iroiii SanliaL^o. as they irud^fd wearily hv. had 
coxLTcd it witli dc'hcatc terns, with L;r<"'it: plantain leaves, and 
the red blossoms that L;rew everywhere aljout the jjface. Weak 
and broken with the journey as th(*y were, it hatl shocked them 




l-'ii;. i6 

Grave of Major A. Ci. Force, First i\ S. Cavalry, on crest of 

San Juan Rid;^e. 

to see the brown, ill-shapen mound under which lay a man who 
died to deli\ er them from their bondage. So they had covereil 
it with the sweet, clean flowers of the field, before continuinL,^ 
their almost ho[)eless quest for bread. Later a more than 
usualK- heaw rain had tallen, antl. as I camped near b\". w<; 



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were awakened in the nii^ht l)y a great noise and uproar in the 
road, where we found a mule train and a crowd of Arizona 
packers all mixed up in i)ictures(|ue contusion. When we 
l)roui4'ht up lanterns the dt-atl soldier was discovered, there 
riL;'ht across the trail, where he had l)een washed out of his 
shallow graxe. We buried him again, a little farther from the 
road, and a little deeper in the swampy soil. Then there came 
another rain, a perfect deluge, as though the heavens had 
opened. The road became a river, and the army wagons, laden 
with wounded coming down irom the front, were mired. And 
when the first light of da)' came, I saw that the new road had 
passed over the soldier's graxe, the little mound had been 
beaten down so that no one could hncl the exact spot where we 
had j)lac(Hl him the evening before. 

"Something of this I told the caxalryman as we talked 
there in the dusk of the evening, and the vultures passed over- 
head and circled about with heavy, droning Hight, ' I wonder 
whether the folks at home,' he said, as we turned and walked 
toward the; commissary tent, where, it was rumored, the lime 
juice that the sick were thirsting for had at last arrived. ' I 
wonder whether they'll remember boys like him who went 
through this campaign just adiitting licks and not saying noth- 
ing, and whether the)'ll try to put a little marker over their 
graves — I wonder !' " 

This book gives answer to the soldier's pathetic : " I 
wonder !" 



Chapter 



Marines' Hill on Guantananio Bav 



Marines' Hill on Guantanamo Bay 



jHE mountain rang-e of tin- Si(M-i-;i Macstra follows 
the southern coast of Cuba from (iuaiUanamo Ikiy 
wesward to Capo Cru/. Its slopes roll clown tlush 
to the sea line excei)t where a bench-like limestone 
ridge interxenes. This is a peculiarit\' of th(,' rock formation, 
and runs alono" the southern coast like a continuous iI.kIo. 





Fig. 17 

/ iVtc of scene of Battle of (iuantanamo /uiv. Xo. t— Marines' Hill : 2— Ho fit a I an ii Camp 

on the Beach; j; — Cuban camp: 4 — hishetman s Point, at the end of the seabciich. 

Here and there it is cut through by the streams that thread the 
mountain sides. I'rom Cape Maysi to Guantanamo there is 
scarcely a sign of life. The shoredand is a wilderness, though 
the moimtains are covered with tropical xcnlure. and beyonil 
tlieir crests lie some of the most U-rtile . ections ot earth known 
to man. 



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Tlu- inai'iiicr follows this hordc-rin^- bench of terraced clifts 
ahnost as closely as he is pleased to push his ship, lor the coast 
is steep-to ; not with a shelving j^each or a beach of any sort, 
but with deej) water up to the shore. Some forty miles from 
the eastern point of the; island one comes to a g"reat semicircu- 
lar bite in the sc^adx-nch, which lorms ( iuantanamo Bay. 
Across the bay from tlic point around which the vessels sweep 
from the Caribbean Sea, the ri\er Guantanamo debouches ; and 




Fh;. i8 

Vic7(' of Giiant(Uiai)io Biiy and Marines' J fill, /■'ran a c/iart fnniislwd by Commands r Craig, 

I '. S. .v., of th-j Hydrographic Of/i,e. 

about li\e miles northward up the l)a)'. on the opposite western 
side, is Caimanera, whose old tort commanded the pocket- 
shaped habor antl the raiKva\' that leads up to th(' City of Guan- 
tanamo from the western side of the bay. The throat of the 
bay is hllcd with numerous coral islands ccn'ered with tropical 
plants, antl some ol them crowned with hills. burther up, as 
at the mouth, th(; waters arc- unol>structed. 

dhere is room enoui^h here lor all the shipping- that is ever 
hkely to visit the spot, and it was an inspiring- sight to see riding 



/IDiU-mcf^' llMll on Cuautanamo ;i'Jav *'• 

alaiuhdi- ihtrriii, on ihr ^slh of July, i SoS. the ihrcc s(|iia(lr(>ns 
of the American tl« d. 1 here were ihr \iilorious ships thai Ity 
Admiral Sampson's skilltiil combinations and arran^cnicnis 
were siicccsstuli\ liurKnl against Ccrvcra's lli.-trt. and in a<ldili<in 
ihcrc^to tht^ xcsscls of Commodore Watson's s(|uadron. At 
niL^lu the ships \\^■\^r aL^low wilh ch-clrii' hL;hts and uidi \arious 
colored lanierns han-iiiL; tVom the masts, all showing;- more 
l)i-illianti\- a^amst the dark hack^rou nd of the swellin;^ licights 
of Sierra Maestra, and lii^hlinL;- n]> the water wilii shimmerins^ 
reflections. The sounds of instrumental music, oi lorecasile 
sini^in^, ol ship calls, of hn^le notes echoed l»ack h'om lh<' 
hills, and of the confused but not unpleasant murmur ol )nan\' 
\c)ices and the \aried noises of the lleet, atlded to the im|>res 
siveness ot the scene. 

As the shi]) tloubled h'ishei-man'^ Point, the eye caiii^ht a 
oleam of color ai^ainst the tlark L:r<'cn background ol the 
moimtain. It was the Cuban tlag lloating from .i tall stall 
standing in the midst of the Cuban encampment ol Col. 
l'",ni-i(|ue/ I'homas, the only spot in Cuba where it si-ems to 
ha\<' had an\diing like official recognition from the Americ.m 
authorities. 'I'he camp was a uni(pie and interesting siglit. It 
was composed of shack huts or booths, some ol them put 
tog;ether quite ingeniousK" by wattling long shreds ol palm 
leaves between stocks of bamboo or other wood, wmI thatcliing 
the whole with the uncut leaves of the i)alm. Many ol 
them, however, had nothing but a roof. These huts cxlemleil 
along the beach in double rank, with a broad street or open 
parade grouiul, in the midst of which was the Colonels head- 
(piarters, before which stood the llag staH. 

Something more attractive inviti d attention. \'onder. junI 
before us. was a spot destined to be forever memoraljle as the 



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nrxartial Graves 



scene of the tirst battle and bloodshed of American soldiers on 
Cuban soil. It is the historic mound \vhich (why should we not 
so christen it ?) we may call Marines' Hill. Here a large detail 
from our little Marine Corps made their landing in the early 
part of June, and were suddenly assailed by a strong force of 
Sj^anish troops, who were sheltered in the thick forests and 
chaparral everywhere covering the sea bench, the foot hills and 
the mountains beyond. Though the marines w^ere at first 
surprised, they were not for a moment shaken, but rallying 

their forces pushed out against 
the enemy. From the narrow 
bit of tiat land which by courtesy 
we may call a beach, thickset 
v.'ith cactus plants and wdld, 
thorny vines, there rises a knoll 
about a hundred and thirty feet 
high, upon which the Spaniards, 
with their usual keenness in 
orcranizinor defence, had estab- 
lished a scjuare blockhouse or 
small fort. Aided by the guns of the navy, the marines routed 
the occupants of this defensive work and established them- 
selves upon the hill. Here and in the surrounding jungle the 
engagements of June iith, 12th, 13th and 14th were fought, 
which resulted in the death of Surgeon (libbs, of the navy, 
and several marines. 

After the enemy had been defeated and entirely driven 
froni the xicinitw the hill was occupied as a permanent post by 
the Marine Corps under Lieut. -Col. Huntington, who, in con- 
junction with the Cuban scouts under Col. Thomas, held the 
position, not only because of its strategic value, but because it 




Fig. 19 
.7 sijuarc Spanish biockhottse. 



nnariiiC5" Iblll on Guautanamo .I6a\: 4.") 

coniinamU'cl ;iii imporlanl caMi- station which .L:a\c coiniminica- 
tion with the rnitid States. The site provcil a h<-ahhtul (•iic. 
and it is worthx ot record that although it was occupied during 
the entire sumnu;r, not a sint^le marine ihed from (lie ehects of 
cHmatic or other fevers. 

The sei/urc ot" this point r<-Miiled h'om the necessity ol 
liaxin*;" a secure place in which th.e American tleet could anchor, 
especially while coaling- and repairiiiL^. The soullu-rn coast of 
Cid)a is exposed to strong- easterl\- winds diu-iiiL^- the simimer, 
which catise heavy swells aL;ainst the: precijiitous shore. It 
was this iliat maih- the snhsecpient landinu; <»t the jdtth Army 
Corps at Daicpuri and .Sihoney so ditt'icult, and but for a fortu- 
nate modification of the winds at the time of disembarkation, as 
I heard General Shafter remark at a ])ul)lic dinner, would have 
utterK' ruined our plans or ha\c iuNoKed serious disaster, it not 
defeat. Secrc^tary Lon^- su^L^ested Guantanamo Ha\- as a 
coalino- base, and as earl\- as May 2Sth Admiral .Sampson 
directed its seizure. This was ncH done, however, until lie 
arrived on the scene to take personal command. 

The hill on the- eastern point of the- c-ntrance to the bay 
was bombarded by the )'aHL'LC and the blockhouse on its 
summit destroyed. ( )n June i8th Captain McCalla. <»1 the 
Marblclicad. seized the place, and lay otT the mouth ot the bay 
to command its approach, a tact which led to the naming ol the 
station formed shortly afterwards. ••Camp McCalla. "" On bine 
loth. Captain Ritc-r arrived with the Panther, bringing Lieut. - 
Col. lluntington and about si.\ hundred marines, who were 
disembarked under the guns («f the na\y and occupic-il the 
height vacated b\- the enenu'. ( )n the following afternoon 
(Saturday) the Spaniards crept up from the adjacent hills, 
throu-jh the thick scrub that here evervwhere covers the 



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surface, ami 1)C'L;an iht" oucrilla attacks, which continued until 
their fmal dislocly'ment on June 14th. 

Nioht was commonly chosen for these attacks because 
their hiclino- places in the woods and chaparral were then so 
well concealed that thc\- could not be shelled b\' the ileet with 
much atbantage. ^Ihe assaults were made from various points 
at once, and so continuousK- that the marines were kept alert 

nioht and day. Little rest 
was possible for them until 
the crest was secured by 
entrenchments and breast- 
works, and the machine and 
rapid-hre guns were put in 
position. 

The fiohting' ck^sed with 
the expedition under Cap- 
tain Elliott, who, on June 
I 4th, led a battalion of ma- 
rines and Cuban scouts to 
Cuzco, a site among the 
mountains, six miles distant, 
wher(? were a Spanish helio- 
graph station ior signalling 
to b'ort Caimanera and the 
spring which supplied water for the .Spanish troops. After 
sharp fighting the enemy was dislodged with heavy loss, llie 
station was destroyed and the well filled up. Immediately 
afterward Cai)tain McCalla, with the Marh/c/icad, St. Louis, 
and 'Icxas, sailed up the l)a\' to 1^'ort Caimanera and the enemy 
wcr(; driven l)ack upon (iuantanamo Cit\'. Thus, Admiral 
Sampson was in possession of a secure, healthy and beautiful 



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The (J roves of Surgeon Gibbs {the furlhesl to the 
rii;ht) ami of Privates McColgan and Dtini- 
phy. Marines' Hill. 



firXauinct?' Il.'^ill on Guaut.inamo .iSav J7 

harbor in which to loal and repair his slups, and lo serve as a 
i^cneral reiuhvA'Oiis. 

i he while leiUs of the marines were aHj^ncd aloiii; the 
slopes and across the reddish cresl ol the hill, and (nic section 
of the Corps with the hospital tents uraler Snr^* on l\aL;an, 
occupied the heacii near the C'nhans. hrem llie heaih to the 
siiinniit wound a road beaten 1)_\- the continuous j>assin_L; ol the 
men, showiiiL;' as a broad. ,L;ray strip amid the oreen. Iroin 
the sides of th(; hii' and from the surfaci^ immediately surround- 
in^:, the scrub had ])een trimmed out or cut a\\a\- to |)re\eiit 
Inishwackin- tactits by i^uerillas. In the .L^ani^way between the 
last wall tent and th.e next to the last, on the west side of the 
company street that crosses the smnmit. Col. liuntiuL^ton 
l)ointed out the L^rave of Siiri^^eon Gibbs. It is marked by a 
plain white wooden headboard, which b(ars his name, raid^ and 
date of death. I he graves of privates McColgan and Dumidiy. 
the first men killed in the invasion, are side by side with Sur- 
geon (iibbs'. and all the headboards are close to the adjoining 
tent. (big. 20. )■•■ The marine wh.o la\' reading on the board 
floor, his head pillowed upon his blanket roll, could ha\<' touched 
it with his hand, and sc-emed cpiiK.,- undisturbeil by tile close 
companionship of his silent comrades. No mound marked tlie 
craves. The red L^raxi-l la\- smooth and llal upon the surtace, 
and men i)assed to and li'o above the bodies bi-neath. 

•• No, it (.Iocs not strike them as irrexcrent," saiil C ol. 
lluntington. in rei^l)- tt) a (piestion. "We burietl the ileail 
under fire, and of necessity just here near where we could do 
so safely. We had no diou-ht at that time that th's hill would 
be matle a fixed camp : and when the order came to that etlect. 

* This cut and lig. 24 are frciii jihotographs by (Ju. rtermaMer \\ . 11. Ilarrs. of the 
L'. S. S. Kcsoittlc. 



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we had to leave these three graves among the tents. Our men 
must come and go, and they mean no harm. Besides, it does 
not trouble themr He pointed to the gravelly path beneath 
which the silent heroes slept. 

Thence through the tall grass a path leads over the sum- 
mit of the hill to a litde burial plot (Fig. 21). It is about forty 
yards from the crest, and contains thirteen graves arranged in 
two rows. (See Chart, Fig. 29.) The heads look down the 




iMi;. 21 Fig. 22 

fig_ 2,— Cemetery on Marines' Hilt. riioloi;r,tph by Chief Masler-of-Arins Howard ll'/isfU, 

U. S. S. J'ixen. 
/-iV 23—Gra7'es of Surgeon Gil>bs and Privates MeCol:;au and Dumphy, just before the return 

of t/ie Marine Corps. 

slope toward the ravine and the face of tlie mountain rising 
beyond : a beautiful spot, indeed, and rareh' meet for a war- 
rior's burial if duly tempered by the hand of art. In the upper 
row are two unmarked graves which contain Cuban soldiers ot 
Col. Thomas' battalion. The first (No. 7 of the plot) fell in 
th(- tight with the Spaniards while cooperating with the marines, 
the otlier (No. 8) died of malarial sickness after the engage- 
nutiit. It is uot(;worth\' that this man. to \\\(\ maimer born, was 



/Il>aviuci3" IMll oil Ouantanaino .iL^a\"» 



4J> 



the onl\' one ol ihc (ml^Iu or iiiiic huiidi'cd ('ncanipcd here w h(i 
(lied Ironi nialai'i.il tc\ci", die marines ha\ iiv^ liad ciuirit cxeiiiplioii 
thcr<-lr()iii. 

Mr. Carkon 1. Chapman, a s])ecial war corrcspoiulfiU. 
gave a seraphic acxount ot the hiirial ot the Ciihaii soldier aljovc" 
referred to as killed in die ( iiiaiUanamo ti,^lu. Ahoul 10.30 a 
procession ot boats letl the MarblcJiciul and mo\cd into the 
landing;". I'irst came a culler, with otficers and armed men. and 
then a steam launch 



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towing- a boat with men .-'-tt^e"'^*'^^ 

in bow and stern, and 
amidship a silent tiy- 
iire covered with a llat;^. 
a Cuban who had been 
woimded the da\' be- 
fore and had died on 
the ship. The boats 
landed at the little pier. 
A buL^ier sounded a 
few notes of the 1 )ead 
March, and the column 
moved slowly up the 
brown hill. Idai^s were 
half-masted, and the soldier who had died bra\-ely lor "Cuba 
libre " was laid to rest beside the others who hail L^i\-en their 
lives for his cause as well as for their own starr\- llaL^-. There 
was a brief sih^ice, and then a xolley <>f musketry, which 
marked the vn(\, and the bugles blew a (Uiickstep as tlic sailors 
and marines marched back to their (juarters. 

( )n board the Dolphin, in the i;rt at cool wardroom, now 
shorn of its luxurious fittinijs. la\' three other Cubans, one very 



ii... jj 

Marines' Hilly slioa^ing location of f>lai(s of hutial. 



50 /iDartial Graves 

badly wounded, but being- cared for by the good doctors. A 
fine-looking black fellow, done up in bandages and lying 
patienth' on the long divan, opened his eyes as the writer gazed 
sympathetically at him for a minute, and then smiled in a proud 
way, as a soldier should who knew he had done his duty/-' 

The first grave in the upj^er row of this little cemetery is 
that of Sergt.-Major (iood, of the Marine Corps, and at his 
side is Chief Yeoman Ellis, of the U. S. S. Brooklyn, Commo- 
dore Schley's fiag ship, the single fatal casualty in the sea fight 
of July 3, 1898, that annihilated Cervera's fleet. At Ellis' 
head is a high board painted brown. 7he graves of the 
marines and sailors are marketl with white boards inscribed 
and erected under direction of Captain Riter of the U. S. S. 
Panther. Rear Admiral Schley, in an interesting interview, 
gave the following account of the death of Chief Yeoman 
Ellis : 

" Ellis was Irom the city of Brooklyn," said the Commo- 
dore, "a bright young fellcnv who enlisted to go before the 
mast. He was a hard worker, studied navigation with the 
young officers of the ship, and rose to the rank of yeoman. As 
I stood talking with Captain Cook, while we finished the 
Vizcaya, it seemed that our shots were falling a little short. I 
turned to bdlis, who stood near, and asked him what was the 
range. He replied, ' Seventc.en hundred yards.' 1 have pretty 
keen eyesight and it seldom deceives me as to distances, and 
I told him that I thought it was slightly more than that. 

" 'I just took it, sir,' was the answer, 'but I'll tr\- again.' 
He stepped off to one side, about eight feet, to get the range. 
He had just raised his instrument to his ey(! when a sh(?ll struck 
him full in the face and carried off all of his head above the 

'''Harper's Weekly, July 9, l^'yS. 



^arinci?' l'>ill on Guantannmo .U^av 



51 



nioiilh. Shclis arc (|iicci- thinL;s," coiitiniicd the CoinnKuIorc. 
after a moiiiciu's silciuc " I noticed <nic man siaiulln- wiili 
his hand ^raspiii- a hammock rail as a shell siruck the shij). 
ricocheted, and l)iirsi. ( )nv piece; of tlu; metal cut the rail on 
one side of his hand : another on the other side, so that he was 
left standing with a short section of the rail still L^rasped in his 




l-'ii; 24 

Ihii iiil at sea, on Adniiial Sampion's llagship, the Xco York. 

hand. AniUlier |)ortion of tin- shell passed over his shoulder 
and another between liis le-s. lie was surprised, but was not 
hurt."=^= 

The plan and list will show that onl\ two marines are 
buried in this plot, ib.e others bein^- sailors fi-om the Orcgojt, 

*Cliarles Morris, '"'Ihc War wi h Spain. " 



52 /iDartial (5rave3 

Marblchcad. Pi-air'u\ Honict, Ih'ooklyn and I'ulcaii, and one 
soldier from the 34th Michigan Volunteers. The sailors died 
while the fleet was riding- in the bay or cruising near shore, and 
thus were laid to sleep beneath the palms on the kindly bosom 
ot our common mother Earth, instead of being committed to 
the deep, the usual sepulchre of seaman who die at sea. 
(Fig. 24.) I am indebted to Major Charles L. McCawley and 
Adjutant Herbert L. Draper, of the Marine Corps, for lists, 
plans and information, and to Captain C. M. Chester, U.S. N., 
ot the Cuicinuati, for a corrected and complete list of graves 
and inscriptions on headboards, and also for plan and photo- 
graphs made under direction of ist Lieut. lohn A. Lejeune, 
U. S. Marine Corps. The plan (Fig. 23) was made by Yeoman 
E. Fischer, U. S. N., and the photographs (Figs. 22, 25) were 
taken by Hospital Steward F. R. Graham, U. S. N. 

In addition to the above is the grave of Sergt. C. H. Smith, 
which is about half a mile from the summit of Marine Hill and 
about twenty yards from the trail, (big. 25.) The tree under 
which Privates McColgan and Dumphy were killed, the first 
fatalities in the Spanish-American War, is about fifty yards 
further on. These sentinels were out on advanced picket, 
their duty being to give notice at once in the event of the 
enemy's appearance. About 4 p. m., January iith, the enemy, 
Spanish guerillas, crawled up to within ten yards ot them in 
thick chaparral. They carried out their orders, and notified their 
picket by firing at the Spaniards. They were both instantly 
killed, one being shot twenty-one times and the other si.xteen 
times. The gucM-illas, in their trenzy, shot them all to pieces, 
so that tlie Cuban colonel with the marines said that they had 
been mutilated with machetes. This rumor was spread 
through the United States, and caused vast indignation. But 



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):i 



the statement, as above made 1)\ Adiutaiu IlcilH-rt, exonerates 
the Spanish soUHers from llie odious tliar-c <»l inuiilalin;^ the 
bodies of the shiin. 

Sero-eant-lMajor 1 lenry ( iood was killed diirinL;- the nii^ht 
attack of Inne i2lh. A Manser bullet passed throiii^h his 
])od\-. 1 lis onl\- words al'ti r beiiiL; shot were. " Ar/ ii/r oo to wy 
duty!" 1 U' died in ten miiuites. No nobler motto could be 
expressed than that which 
fell from tiiis gallant sol- 
dier's dyiiiL;' lip^- That it 
was the unconscious utt(;r- 
anceot one wounded to the 
death is an indication ot iIk; 
loft\- character of the man 
who, in an hour when all 
disL;"uises are impossible, 
thus voiced the controlliiiL:' 
motive of his life and, one 
mii^ht acKl. the controlling- 
motive of his comrades in 
ever\' branch ot the serxice. 
Never diil men more wil- 
linoU", honoi^ably and con- 
scientious!)' _l;() to their dui\' 

in the face of daneer than the American soldiers, sailors and 
marines who maintained th<-ir countr\''s honor duriiiL^ the 
Spanish- American wai'. 

Serjeant Charles II. Smith was shot throuL^h the i)rcast 
while actino- as Seroeant of the picket post, and was instantly 
killed early in the evenin- of lun«- ' i th, while with Lieutenant 
Xcville's troops. The men -.f this picket withstood attacks of 




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'J'lie ^rave of Sergeant Charles H. Smith on the 
trail cast of A/aritus' Hill. 



54 



/iDavtial Graves 




6ERGEANt' 

C.H.SMITH' 

U.SM.C. 

ICI LLED 

IN ACTION 
I June II. 18 98 






the enemv all ni^ht. On being relieved in the morning, the 
marines started back about nine o'clock with the body of 
Sergeant Smith, luit being attacked by the enemy in superior 
force thev were obliged to abandon their dead comrade in 
order to defend themselves. Owing to the almost constant 
assaults of the Spaniards made on June 12th and 13th, the 
bodv had to be left, as the effort to bring it to the hill would 

have cost the lives of several 
of the marines. After the 
complete defeat of the Span- 
iards on lune 14th, the Ser- 
geant was buried on the spot 
where his body had been laid 
down upon the trail, a course 
wdiich was made necessary by 
the long period which had inter- 
vened since his death. It had 
been intended to bury him in a 
space left between the graves 
of Surgeon (libbs and Private 
Dumph)-. 

The circumstances attend- 
ing the killing of Surgeon 
(iibbs are as follows : A \icioiis attack was made on the camp 
about one o'clock in the morning of June i 2th, three sides of the 
position being engaged. The fire was heavy l)Ot]i on the part 
of the Americans and of the Spaniards. Many of the bullets 
of the latter were cutting through the tents. This led Dr. Gibbs 
to remark to Dr. Edgar, with whom he was sitting at the time 
in one of the hospital tents, " I.(;t us get out of this. 1 do not 
w^ant to be killed here." Dr. Edgar advised that all the sick 




Fig. 26 
Headboard at Sergeant Sii/it/i's grai'e. 



/lDavinc5' IhiU on Cniantanamo ;iGav •'>5 

who were able to ^o, ami llv liospilal aiu-iulaius who, hkc tin* 
doctors, were iiiianncd, had hcU< r inakc for an ciUnMicliiiiciU 
(Fig-. 2S) around iIk- d('slro\('d Si)anlsh Mockhousc whicli was 
on the hrow of the hill l.chind the c(jniniandin|L^ othcer's tent, 
and about tort\- feet in front of the hospital tents. They started, 
but Suro-eon (dbbs -ol only ten trci aw.i\ h-oni tin- door of Ills 
tent when a S])anish bullet coining; troni a distance ol six or 
ei^T-ht hundred \ards struck him in the- head, goiny in om- tem- 
ple and out ol the other. 

Capt. McCawley was widiin a few fed of the surgion when 
he fell, and he and Col. llunlln-ton went to the fallen man's 
side. At fn-st the\- did not know who had been shot, the night 
was so dark. Two or three men joined in the e.xamination ol 
the body, and some one remarked that it was Dr. Kdgar. Col. 
Huntington called for a match. Ipon its being struck it was 
discovered that Dr. Gibbs was the person who had been hit. .\ 
crlance showed that but a few moments of life remainetl. '1 he 
Colonel directed that the surgeon be carried to the trencli 
toward which he had been moving, and returned with Capt. 
McCawley to the firing line on the right llank. Three-cpiarlers 
of an hour later Capt. McCawley passed by tlu; trench and 
Surgeon Edgar antl .Surgeon McCormick. who had been sum- 
moned b\- signal from the I\iutlici\ informed him that Gibbs had 
died about hall past one. 

During the buried of .Surgeon C.ibbs and Prixates McCol- 
gan and Dumphy, \\\v. i;imp was attacked, and it seemed to 
Capt. McCawley that the enemy took advantagirof the occasion 
to fire upon the party standing around die graves, which 
included a guard of honor, commanded by Liinit. Radtord. 
attach(;d to the Texas. Ihis fire; was rcturneil by the men m 
the trenches and soon ceased. TIk- funeral services were con- 



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/IDarttal Graves 



ducted by Chaplain foncs of the Texas, who has published a 
graphic account of the burial. In one respect, however, his 
story is challenged by officers of the marines. The Chaplain 
states that the services were interrupted by the Spanish fire, 
and that he was advised by Col. Huntington to run for his life. 
Major -McCawley remembers no such incident, though he was 
standiiv'- b\- Col. Huntinoton's side at the foot of the o-rave all 




Fig. 27 Fn;. 28 

/■/;,'■. 2j — lirai'e of Surgeon Gibbs after the lettirn home of the Marine Corps; part of the 

adjoining grave aha shoiun, and both arc coi'ercd thiclcly loith grass. 
Fig. 28 — American entreneh»ient over the site of Spanish blockhouse. 

the time. All of the burial party noticed the fire, but Major 
McCawley remembers no one moving from around the grave 
until the service was completed. 

The graves of these three persons were hastily dug by 
some of the men under Capt. McCawley's direction, and were 
only three feet deep, as it was impossible, under the circum- 
stances, to dig them deeper. The three bodies were tied up in 
ruljbcr l>]ankcts. Dr. Gibbs wearing the clothes in which he tell. 



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The other nicii IkuI been ilcprixcd ot' tlnir outer j^-arments l)y 
the Spaniards who killed them. All the -ra\('s of tile marines, 
and prohaliK' all others in this cemeter\- are not onK' marked 
by Ijoards liut ha\c holtle-s placed in the i^round al the head 
which contain the personal i-ecords oi the slam. 1 he losses in 
battle b\' the Marine Corps were six killed and twcKc or lifteeii 
woimded. 

The \iews of the L;ra\-es shown in th(; photoL^raphs sent 
from the r. S. S. Ciiiciinia/i (\\\\('x from that of id^-. 20. which is 

as 1 saw them. 
1 h<' dit'ference 
is explained by 
the fact that the 
b)]"mer were 
t.dseii after the 
icmoval o{ the 
marines from 
C aIn|)^b■Calla. 
bi a tew weeks 
the L^ra\(dly 
L;an,L;wa\' be- 
tween the tents 
under which the 

three men lay, bein^' untrcxldcn b)' passing leei that ke|)t 
down the veo-etation, were overgrown with rank L;rass. .As 
shown 1)\' \'\'^. 22, the marines had roimded up their comrades' 
o-raves into s(.'t;mly mounds ere lhe\ bade a last tarewell. 
The inscriptions upon the headboards ot the i^raxes on Marines' 
1 lill are as follows : 

\o. I. Private |. McColt^an, V. S .M. C\ Killed in action 
June I I . I S98. 









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58 /IDai'tial Graves 

No. 2. Private Win. Dumphy. l\ S. M. C. Killed in 
action. June i i, 1898. 

No. 3. Act. Asst. Suro-eon John H. Gibbs, U. S. N. Killed 
in action, June 12, 1898. 

No. 4. Ser<^eant-Major Henry Good, U. S. M. C. Killed 
in action, June 13, 1898. The High standing of Sergt. -Major 
Good in the Marine Corps is shown by the fact that the officers 
of the battalion, have erected a bronze tablet to his memory. 
It bears the seal and motto — " Semper Fidelis " — ot the Corps, 
and is inscribed: "In Honor and Memory of Sergeant-Major 
Henry Good of the First Marine Battalion, who was killed in 
Action near Santa Catalina de Guantanamo Cuba, Jiuie XII, 
MDCCCXCVUI. Erected by the Officers of the Battalion." 

No. 5. Private G. Taurman,U. S. M. C. Killed func; 13,1898. 

No. 6. G. H. Ellis, Chief Yeoman, U. S. Navy, native of 
Peoria, 111., U. S. A. Born Oct. 25, 1875. Killed in action on 
board U. S. F. S. Brooklyn. July 3, 1898. 

No. 7. An unknown Cuban soldier, mortally wounded by 
the Spaniards while supporting the marines. 

No. 8. Unknown Cuban soldier who died of malaria. 

No. 9. lidward Gratz, Chief Master at Arms, U. S. S. 
Ore 0011. I)orn Nov. 13, 1846. Died Aug. 4, 1898. x'\ged 51 
)'ears 9 mths. 

No. 10. In memory of M. J. Power. Shipwright L^ S. N. 
Died on board U. S. S. Marble head, Aug. 30. 1898. 

No. II. In memory of Lynward brench. Chief Boatswain's 
Mate U. S. .S, Prairie, died Aug. 9, 1898. 

No. 12. John F. Dolan, U. S. S. /Aw/r/. died Julys. 1898. 

No. 13. Karl J. Anderson, Seaman U. S. Xa\ \-. Born [uly 
27, 1874. Died on board U. S. S. Brooklyn, July 27, 1898. 
Age, 24 years. 



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No. 14. Wm. I). Ruckl(-(loc. Chief Mach. T S. X. 1 )i.(l 
Aul;. II, iSo(). liorn March 31, 1876. Lowell, Mass. 

Xo. 15. l'ri\at(; George KciU. Co. A, \.\\.h .Mieh. XOlim 
teers. I )i((l .\ii^'. 27. 1S9S. 

Xo. 10. All unknown sailor, wlio is siipposetl to ha\c (li«-ij 
upon the So/(Uc. 

Xo. 17. Sc-r^'eanl Chas. 11. .Sniiili, I . .S. Marine Corps. 
Killftl in action, j un(' 11,1 SgS. 




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Chapter W 



The Battle Ridg^e of San Juan 



The Battle Ridge of San Juan 




R( )M the cast(_Tn \>()\i)[ of C"aj)c Maysi to SaiUiaL;() 
(Ic I'uha. or as llu; natives call il siin])ly " Ciil)a," is 
about one liiindrcd miles, 'i'he sail trom ( liiaiita- 
iiaino aloHL; tlie coast continually opens up new 
beauties as tlie knolls and peaks and rolls and ravines of the 
Sierra Maestra are grradually unfolded. As one approaches 
Santiago he sees the breaks in the; bordering; Ix-ncli that lol- 
lows the shore, \vliich form the; landing' i)laces ol Daitpiiri and 
Sibone\- tamihar now as the points where the American army 
of iinasion disembarked. 1 lu; mountains closely Iiul; th<- s<-a 
and present a seeminL^l)' impenetrable front, and one is almost 
under the yray walls of the venerable castle I'd Morro. which 
crowns a diff two hundred feet above the sea le\-el. before h<- 
sees the rift in the hi^L;h coast which forms the entrance to San 
tiago Harbor (See Map. Fior. 31). U is only one hundred and 
eighty feet wide, and as one sails in he can loss a biscuit into 
the castle which the Spanish soldier 1 )e I .a Rocca built in i 64(^. 
( )n the opi)osiLe side, the baltery of Socai)a crowns lh«' hill, 
dhe old books si)eak of a castle there, but from ihv. shij.'s 
deck no such objc-ct nor any trace thereof can be di.scerned. 

( )n the summit of the Morro clilT (July 25, 1S9S) near the 
dismantled eastern batt< ry. a small .American lla_L;- lloaled <in a 
low staff. Nearby a nati\c Cub.m, the only occui)anl ot the 
casde premises, looked down stolidly u\)on our passin- shij). 
while a scra^av i)on\- at his side grazed u\n)n the lat herbai^e. 



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/IDartial Graves 



Above the scene towered the round shaft of the hohthouse, 
its lantern shattered into fragments and its sides filled with gap- 
ing wounds of battle. The gunners of the American fleet 
appear to have made this object a special target, the striking of 
which was a test of their gunnery. Almost in the mouth of the 
harbor lay the w^reck of the Spanish w^arship, Rciiia Ahrcedcs, 
showing great gaps in her armor which the American shells had 
pierced. Across her deck was seen the star-shaped battery of 

La Estrella, and a little further 
on the two masts and smoke- 
stack of the Mcrriniac were 
thrust above the surface. The 
buoys that had supported the 
Spanish torpedoes which mined 
the harbor still clung to the 
shore and stretched outward 
upon the water. 

Mere and there on the 
palm-crowned heights, admira- 
ble coicrns of vantage, were 
Spanish blockhouses ; and off 
to the right, two or three miles 
eastward, across the sea bench, l)ut shut out from view by the 
high walls, were the camps of the Fifth Arm\' Corps. Only 
the far western line of circunnallation was in view, its white 
tents, with the blue smoke of camp-fires curling above them, 
nestled at the base of the foot-hills of the Sierra del Cobre 




Fig. 



Spanish blockhouse on the noii'icast of Santia'^o, 
protected by a wire and a 'wooden fence. 



Just ofi the city pier the American transports crowded the 
harbor, haxing thronged in a week before when the city was 
formally turned o\er to the I'nited States. They were waiting 



"Cbc Battle 1Rl^llc of Sail 3uau O") 

to unload the long- dcla)'L'cl and imich needed supplies that 
already were ])iled in L;reat heaj)s upon llie whart. Around 
these nati\'(' siexcdores and American soldiers \\<i-e hoxcrin^' 
and fhttino;- like jjees upon honey. Ambulances and trains of 
pack mules wc-re coming and i^oino-, stretchine- in a lon^; line* 
throuuh the cobMed cit\- streets and aloni^- the mudd\- road to th(; 
camp. Our ship's boat left us at the landing; ct" the |)relt\- boat- 
house ot the Club Xautic'a, which had just btten coincrted into 
a hosjjital. It was crowded with soldiers sutlerinL; with \arious 
forms of iever, all lyine- in their soilecl shirts nnd trousers upon 
the bare tloor, their h(\uls supjiorted upon iheii- blanket rolls or 
ui)on a rolled-up coat, or K'in.Li' llat with no supjiort upon the 
boards or ori tlu; gangway and porches outside. 

We stepped out ui)on the broad Alameda with its central 
avenue of royal palms and ])assed through throngs of scjualid 
natives, men. women and children, who were gathering for the 
distribution ot soup and bread b\' the; Red Cross Society ot 
IMiss Clara l)arton, whose head([uarters were near the (piay. 
That noble lady was herself at the place dirinting relief opera- 
tions for the citizens. We turned into the Calle Marina, an<l 
ascending through sights and smells of tilthiness that nauseated 
one frt^sh trom the pure sea-breezes, to the Pla/.i de Armas, 
entered the; low building known as the Municipal I'.dare. I he 
fkig that was run up on "Sui'reiuler 1 )a\' " still tloated trom the 
entrance to the headcpiarttn's of Major-General .Shatter and of 
General Wood, the Military Ciovernor. 

Armed with a j)ass trom the Commanding General, signed 
by Lieut. -Col. McClernand, one is prepared to \ isit the .Ameri- 
can army. Mounted on an easy-gaited S})anish poiu'. lh<- 
journ(;y is not ditficult. ( )ne climbs th ■ steep slope on which 
Santiago is built, passes the Church and I'laza of Dolores. 



/RLAJAbHALACE 8 CIVIL H05PL 
a PLAIf^ DOLOREt 9 JAN OUAN OR 
e PLAZA MARS KETTLE HiLL 

^ MILITARY HOSPL. 10 BLOODY BEND 
S /PflNA MERCEDES 1/ BATTLE PLAIN 




iMG. 31 
Map of Santiago Harbor, to sho:. the relative loca'ion oj the San Juan battlefield and 

other important points. 
06 



(wbc ;iL^attlc 1Rl^,lc ot San 3unn 



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crosses the Plaza nl Mars, antl liiuls hiinstlt in the; slraL'^'lintr 
suburbs of the cit\. Here, the houses are low stucco huts witli 
thatchetl roofs, instead of with roofs of curvetl vvA tiles, the 
coniinoii motlc. ( )ii the |)orch(.*s are L^r()U])s of S|)aiiish soldiers 
or men in the soiled white nnifoiMii ot Cuban insuri^cnts. or 
bexies ol children ol both sexes and all shades of color, and 




iMG. 32 
Broken breastwork or itirt/ien barritoa'e in <i .S',rnft<n;o street. 



various stages of nudity, their rouiul alidoniens aiul wan faces 
in many cases showing" scant nutrition. Ihe tokens of a 
besieot'd cit\' are ever\ where present. blockhouses L^iiaril the 
niilitar\' crests. Wire fences and elajjorate entan<^lements in 
\ar\in<4' stages of wreckai^e are on either hantl. Deep furrows 
are cut across the streets, showing- where rille pits had been 
hastily attempted. Here and there is a bisected breastwork 



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which h;ul btien buik across the way by throwuin' up the street 
soil aiul buttressing- it with barrels and boxes filled with earth 
and stones. In one breastwork a gangway had been cut 
through for trafiic, leaxing humps on either side. (Fig. 32.) At 
anothc-r the barricade had been pardy dug down, leaving a 
huge winrow over which the wagons rolled. 




The CIturch and Pima of Dylores, San/iago. 

Leaving to the left the Spanish Military Hospital and the 
Spanish Quarters, now occupied by the b'ifth Infanlr\' of Regu- 
lars, one descends the crest of the hill, and turning eastward 
finds himself l)efore the })ickets of tlie iMfth Arm)' Corps at the 



Lbc X^attlc IRi^iic ot Saw :tuan 



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blocklioiisc known as I'.l Caiiosa. Mere the ruatl forks. Ihc 
one to the li-lL hcai's toward Camw and that to the ri^ht Icails to 
tluMnain rncanipmcni ot our li'oops and the 1 lattlcticld ( (t San I nan. 
Ihc I'roxinct; ot Santiaj^cj de Cuba is prcduininati.-ly a 
monntainous rc^^ion ot hii^li relict, cspeciallv aion^^'' the coasts, 
with iTian\ iiUcrior \allc\s.-- ihc tidd ot tlic tainous IjatlK'S 
ol |ul\' 1, 1 S()S, rescmhlcs one ot tlicso \alli-\s, Imt is circiiiii- 
scrilicd troin the sea hc-nch 1)\" the .Sierra Ahustra, and is ahoul 
two huneh'etl tcet above sea levek It is entered troni th(t sontli 
1)\' trails that lead throuc^h j)asses in the monntains, or o\er 
noti:hcs in the shoulders ot the loothills, Iroin Aj^iiadores or 
Ironi .Sihoncy (haisenatla de las Altares), the Inrthest eastwai'd 
point, which is also reached li\' a road o\cr the sea bench Iroin 
I'aKpiin. As one passes o\cr the mountain wall and stands 
upon the crest, he looks down upon au aniphith(;atrical \'alle\' 
whii-h, rouL^hK' speakinL;-, is six miles in diameti r. .Sweeping;' 
to the east and north the mountain wall ot the coast ranjj^e 
touches with its base the- xilkiL^e ot Caney. Continuing' north- 
ward ami westward it reaches the heis^hts that look down upon 
the cit\' of Santiao-o aiul upon wliiih the stra_L,''s.i'linL,;' suburbs are 
liuilt. ( )n tlu; west the; amphitheatre is bound(Hl by the eastern 
wall ot the harbor and baw 1 he \alle\' is covered with dense 
tropical toliaL^c, amidst which tower wroxes of royal palms and 
cocoanuts, and clusters ot the mae'niticc-nt maniL^o. while the 
^uasima, the bamboo and other Cuban trees, dot tne abandoned 
fields and triiiL^^c the banks ot' the streams that thread the valley 
at man\' points with lines ol silver water. 1 he surtace is 
irrcijularlv knotted with low wooded ridiji's and roinideil knolls 
that rise from its bosom and L;ive noble points ot view ot the 
beautiful landscape. 

* I'lof. K. r. Ilill, " C'ub.\ anil Purlo Rico." p. 4<i. 



70 /IDavtial Graves 

Standino- upon one of these summits the eye sees the 
mountain wall sweeping around him to the north, east and 
west, while in the far distance lofty peaks and crests shimmer 
in misty Mue against th<.; hrilliant sky. Not tar away to the 
eastward La (iran Picdra sends u\) its rocky summit, a gigantic 
block of conglomerate lifty-two hundred feet high. Beyond the 
city westward, and far off toward the spot where the iron 
skeleton ot the Crisiodo/ Colon moulders against the rock-bound 
coast, Pico del Turcjuino (" the Turk's Head") lilts its cloud- 
enfolded turban eighty-six hundred feet above the sea. l\irn- 
ing towards the near Santiago hills, the vision is crossed by the 
longest of the traversing ridges, which l)eai s the now historic 
name of San luan. It begins quite near the San fuan River on 
the south, and extends northward tor nearly a mile, gradually 
dipping into a level mead, which follows the base ot the ridge 
its entire lenoth. 

Before the southern shoulder this l)roadens out and torms 
the wide l)attle plain on which Gen. Kent's intantry di\ision 
charged upon the .Spanish entrenchments. Midway of the 
ridge the road from .Santiago is cut through a slight depression, 
and descending the slope skirts a little lagoon well known 
among the American soldiers as " the Pond." (See POlder I, 
Fig. 34.) 'Phis sheet of water empties into a branch of the .San 
Juan River, which stretches eastward and then northward 
toward its sources, skirting the two sides of a round knoll that 
rises just opposite the point where the road l)reaks through the 
ridge. This knoll 1 ha\e heard called variously " San Juan 
Hiil," "Ketdellill," "Blue House Hill," "Sugar House Hill," 
" Rough Riders' I lill " and " San Juan House Hill.'' Over this 
elevation Wheeler's Cavalry Division charged. Gen. .Sumner 
bein^f then in direct command, and Col. Roosevelt with his 




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Roiii^h Riders in the van. I hf dismounted ca\alr\ men liavinL;' 
won tlic position jjushed down the western sIojk' oI Kettle 
llill, thn)UL;h or around the c(\o;fi of the pond to the ridge 
l)evond, and joiiiod ilic intanlry di\ision in cuplurin^ its 
entrenched heiohi^. (See Map I )ia-rain. Id-. ,V'). i '11k- i^'raves 
that mark th(Mr trail, and which are most numerous on the 
eastern and soulliern slopes, show al what a hea\'\' cost in 
human lite the roundeil height ot" KeUle llill was won. 

The view ot" the battle ridL;e tVom Ketlh- 1 Mil is strikini^ly 
beautil"ul, and shows the entire line of assault and deience. 
The photo_L;raphic Iblder il"i-. ;,4) reproducc-s the scenery accu- 
rately. The entire San luan Ridi^e is in \iew, tlu; ritle-pits and 
breastworks still intact, and the tents ot" the gth X'olunteer 
Intaiitr\- ( " Immunes '" ) covered most ot" the sjjace at the time 
the photOLirai)hs were taken. Wc^stward is seen the Ime pros- 
pect of the hills ami mountains that encompass Santiat^^o. The 
road to .Santiai;!) known as the .Siboney (or Pozo) Road, which 
climbs the northern shoulder of the rid^e, is just discernil)le in 
the picture. .Several army trails are seen windim;- around the 
foot of the hill and reaching- northward l)e\-ond the point where 
the ridoe breaks down into the \alle\-. Alon^- these crests and 
in the levels near or at the foot, are scattered lonely praxes 
and groups of i^raves of soldiers who fell in action or died in 
hospitals. 

ihe ri^ht of this \iew covers tlu; entire scene ot action of 
(len. Wheeler's division durin- the assault on San luan I'ort. 
except Kettle llill, trom the brow of which it was taken. ( )n 
the left and in the background, be\ond the trees that frinee the 
stream, is seem the plain over which Kent's division charged 
toward San luan Ridge, and which is shown more lull}- on the 
photograjdiic b'older 11. Chapter \'. 



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riDartial Graves 



W'licn I first visited the San Juan Ridoe it was occupied by 
the Third Regiment U. S. Infantry. Lieut.-Col. Harbach was in 
command in the absence of Col. Page, who was seriously ill. 
He showed me over the ridge, pointing out the various spots 
of interest and indicating the lines along which the troops had 
charged over the plain. The scars of battle were fresh upon 
the landscape. The soil of the entrenchments showed as yel- 
low as when first turned. 
The blockhouse, appar- 
ently a farm house con- 
verted into a fort (Fig. 
35), was gone, and its site 
was marked by a mass of 
broken bits of red pottery, 
the fraoments of tiles that 
had covered the roof. 
Every })article of wood 
and other material had 
disappeared, having either 
been consumed in camp- 
fires or carried off for 
s o u \^ e n i r s . Th e earth- 
works and rille pits made 
by the Spaniards, and occupied and improved by the Americans, 
had scarcely changed in form and seeming since the memorable 
first three days of July. 

There was one notable exception. The deep trenches in 
front of the; jjrcastworks were level full of soil, and a broad 
hand of yellow earth lay on the military crest. Beneath lie the 
bodi{;s of the slain .Sjjanish soldiers who so valiantly defended 
and fell at their post of duty. They lie uncoffined, side by side, 










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ar<^!!^»,\i.^ w^;avC^4to^>. 



V'/ie blockhoitsc on San Juan Rid;^e captured by 
hifaniry I^k'ision 




1-IG. 36 

Map and chart showing the approximate location of the martial grazes on atul around 

San Juan Heights. 



"4 /IDartial (3ravc5 

and their brave foes, who buried them, gave them to their last 
sleej) with that rude but hearty and reverent honor which valor 
never withholds from valor. The matrons and maids of Spain 
\ainl)- await their comino-. lUit some day their generous foe- 
men will join with their mother-land in a fitting memorial to 
thes(j " unknown dead." 

I have referred to Col. Page, the gallant commander of the 
Third Regiment, as having been seriously ill when I first visited 
San juan Ridge, then occupied by his command. I found him 
on board the transport Iroquois when returniiig to the States. 
He was greatly reduced in flesh and very feeble. When I vis- 
ited him in his cabin he was lying on his berth in his fatigue 
uniform. From the time that he landed in Cuba at the head of 
his regiment up to the date of my visit he had not se(-n his per- 
sonal baggage. The suit in which he landed, and in which he 
marched and fought the battle of San luan nearly four weeks 
before, was all that he could command. He said nothing of 
this to me. but I saw that his situation was that of nearly all the 
officers in the Fifth Army Corps whose trunks and traveling- 
bags were still stowed away in United States transports Iving 
off the coast or swinging to and fro between Cuba and the 
L nited States. I slipped into my cabin and returned with 
some ck;an handkerchiefs and a night shirt. As I turned 
them ov(M' to the sick man. he sat up in his couch, and 
taking the night dress by both hands, held it out and with 
mingled tears and smiles, exclaimed. 'Good Lord. Chaplain! 
a clean night shirt ! I haven't seen one since I landed in 
Cuba. I shall sleep in clean, cool clothes to-night ! d his 
is heaven — or something very like it. 'Jhaid< you, thank 
you ! " He was trembling with weakness and pleasurable 
excitement, not without a grim sense of the absurdit)' of a 



Xlhc :i6nttlc IRic^tic ot 5au :tiian 7.') 

situation that caused a mau of his (.-Nahcd rank In Ix- !^ial«-ful 
for a t(.;\v cleaii clothes ' 

I count nusclt well seasoned 1)\- contatt with all sorts ot 
trxiiiL; experiences, l>ut this was a litdc too nuah lor nic, an<l I 
hurried from the cahin, leaxiiiL; this eniineiU soldier aiul culli. 
\ated s^c'Utleman to enio\' the ln\ur\' ol a clean niL^hl dress in 
his sickness. ( 'n m\ Imal return horn Saiuiauio, two months 
thereafter, I tound a little hundle containing; the returned l^ochIs 
and a letter from Mrs. Page, as lull of gratitude tor this trilling 
ser\ice as it" some great faxor had lieen done. ( lod Mess us 
all I W hat a comfort it is to do the smallest kindin'ss to these 
noble arm\' peoi^le ! When I \isited the IVcsidcnt (.\ugust o. 
i8g8) on m\ arrixal home, among other exi)eriences 1 told him 
this little incident to illustrate the hardships which officers and 
men had to endure in the Luban tampaign. It is not to the ilis- 
credit of His PLxcellenc)- that in sym|jath\ with the Santiago 
hero the tear-dew tempered his smiles as he pictured the gallant 
colonel of the Third Infantry uttering his semi-humorous and 
wholly pathetic monologue over the luxury of a clean night shirt I 
Wdiat was still more to the point the gooil President sul)se([uently 
dropped the star of a brigadier-general upon the oKl soldier's 

shouUler. 

List and Description of Graves 

( )ne turns trem the main .Sil.oiu)' Road iiUo a well beaten 
wagon trail that crosses the summit of San juan Kitlge. East- 
ward of this trail, alxuit one hundred \.irds from the road, on 
the hill sloj)e and near the; head of a small r.i\ ine is a group ot 
four graves. rhe\- are side b)- side, close to one another, the 
heads towards the north. The names of the fallen heroes who 
sleep within them are as follows : 

No. iS. •• Reuben S. Ingles. 20th Infantry. Com|)any A. 



7(i nnartial Graves 

Died lulv 12th, iSg.S. Rest in Peace." The grave with this 
inscription is the lowest on the slope toward the plain. The 
official list gives the date of his death as August 12th, and 
spells the Ucune " Ingle." 

No. 19. " Albert Tervehn, Company I, 20th Infantry. Died 
Aug. 5th. 1S98." The inscription is cut upon a curved tile 
taken doubtless from the old blockhouse, and other tiles are 




1-1.,. 37 Fig. 38 

Jng. jy — Grave of Albert Teri'din. 
J'ig.jS — Graves of Sergeant McCarthy an i Michael Daly, San Jnan Ridge. 

laid as a border at the foot and around the edges of the mound. 
This name is omitted from the official list. (Pig- 37-) 

No. 20. " Sergt. James F. McCarthy, Light Battery K, 1st 
Artillery." His grave appears in the photograph at the side of 
Michael I )al\''s. A board with the inscription is at the head and 
a cross at the foot. I Ic was killed July 1st, 1898 ( iMg. i"^). His 
grave is nearest the front of the picture. 

No. 2 I . Private Reuben Ross, Company M, 7 1 st New York 
\'olunteers. Killed July 2d, 1898. Harry Morse, Com[)any 



"Che Battle Ifvi^iic ot San 3u.iu 



Ik re was a cross on his Ljravc. 
I (li ) IK )t rcincnil >cv ik »liii'j' an\' 



II, 7 I st New \'()rk IiilaiUry, rc^sidcncc 63 l-indt-nwood Street, 
Phihul('lj)hia, says thai I'rixatc Ross, Comjiany M, 71 si Xrw 
York Intaiilry, was killed July jd in the nieht attack, and buried 
l)y the side ol" Mithaei 1 )al\-. 
Morse says he saw him hiii-ied. 
suo-crestion of a \araiU 
space such as the abox e 
fact would recjuirc;. I uit 
Morse's statemeni \\as 



so definite and emphatic | ><«? i.«i tk. t^»a.^ ___^j. f^/|,fH/^EL 



that I enter th(' name. 
()ii the otVicial list 
"I\eid)en Ross, I'rixate, 
Compaiu' M, 71 si Xew 
\ oi'k \ ohinteers " ap- 
pears as hax'iuL;' died 
"July 2d." This is 
doubtless the same i)er- 
son, wher(!\cr buried. 
No. 22. M icliacd 
I )aly. C'ompain ^b. 7 i st 
New \()vk XOlimteer 
hdanlr)-, died b'b' i. 
1898. At the head of 
Daly's i;"ra\"e is a wood- 
en cross, the standard 




DALl^. 



-^tL Triikfr>o.i% tjj t.rtiv , oJ->.'Atnm<,«.n. bij adopt iafK> 
He d-ltl^-bl-OLjirvLy }|<jktir^Cj jor KiV Country ,f 

— W -I ' p. "^ _ t 



Fic. 39 
Cros.^ on Michael Daly s Grtrt'f. 



beini;" a slic-k, and llu- cross piece a bit ol a box lid on which 
is written the followinL; ; "llei-e lies the body ot Mit'hael 
1 )al\-, CO. M., 71st Rewt. X. \'. \'ols. An Irishman by birth, an 
American by adoption, he tlied bravely .'li^htinq^ for his country. 
K. I. Vr (i-i- ;,9.) 



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flUartial Graves 



No. 23. P\irther up the slope and a little southward an 
unknown body is interred. It was uncovered by one of the 
9th U. S. Volunteers digging- for a tent. The arm was dis- 
closed, but no observation made that would determine identity, 





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Mk ','1 ^W 1I>) '1 









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Fig. 40 

6'/-rtr'£' of frank Ihwlh, jist A'cw York Infantry, San Juan A'id^e. 

not even of the uniform that might have shown to what army 
the man belonged. 

No. 24. Proceeding still southward, not far from the crest 
on the eastern slope a small heap of stones marks the grave 
of Frank \V. P)O0th, of the 71st New York Volunteers (Fig. 40). 
The cairn supports a T-shaped cross which is inscribed " Frank 



Lbc ;i6attlc 1Rl^oc ot ^niu }\\an 



?•• 



W. r)()()th, ("(). \\ 71st -X. \. \. 1 )i<(l in ailion on |iil\ 1, 
iS(;S, May he rest in peace." 

No. JS. Southward still, ami about at tin- same clcxatioii, 
is the L;ra\'e ot another soldiei' ot the 71st .\C\v \'ork \'olun- 
teers who, hke hrank liooih.mu^i haxctallcn in the wiM eharLfe 







"it. 



"^a 



Vu:. 41 
Grave of Joseph Deeke)\ jist .W-w )'or/: I'oltinteers, Sin Jtint. Kitfge. 

Up the rid^e and almost in the iiioiiieiU ot \ ietorv ( Mii;'. 41). 
The i^nwe is iiisci'ilied " |os. Pecker, CO. 1, 7 1 >t X. ^. \<»ls. 
|ul\' 1, iS()S. A coini-.idc." 1 he lull name is Joseph S. 1 )cckfr. 
1 he moLuul slopes toward die laNt with the head well eli-xated. 
It is edited, but rather s])arselv, witl small stones over which 
the urass is waNin-j. It is worth notin'' that there; an: more 



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/IDavtial Graves 



i^raves of soldiers of the 71st New York Volunteers on the 
San I nan Riclgre than of any other single regiment. Thus, at 
least a part of that organization has left the indisputable evi- 
dence that some of its soldiers followed the heroic charge to its 

victorious linisli. 







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Vu;. 42 
Grave of Afajor Force', on San Juan RiJgr. (Set- a/so Fig. j6, Chapter IJ.) 

No. 26, A little below the above and slightly to the north 
is an unmarked grave. 

No. 27. Continuing southward and still further down the 
slope at a point where the hill breaks in a slight distinct roll 



twhc ;i6attlc IRi^iic ot San 3uau ^i 

antl l»c-ins to trcntl luwards ihc soiilliwcsl is ihc iL^ravc ol 
Major AllxTL ("i. l'\)rcc. of th<; i st V. S. Ca\alr\-. li is a cairn 
of gooclK' si/c, a loii;^ inoiiiid coxcrcd willi sioiu-s Iroin llx^base 
to a point near the siiininii. (I'ig'. 42.) The top- is iincoverccl 
soil except that a sin^K: Wnv. of stones curves from the head- 
board to the middle, where it touches the top ot a once i^^reen 
icrn like plain, l-lackenc-d with dec-aw The inscrij)lion on the 
rude ioollioard was simpK' : " Maioi' A. ( 1. I'oi-cc, : si L'. S. Cav. 
Killed |ul\' I St." W hen 1 \ isilcd this L;rave a ti-w weeks later 
the wooden headboard had disappeared and a curved tile had 
betm subslitul((k on wliiili the inscription was car\'ed. '1 he 
surface ot the monml had also been well coNcrcd with stones. 
A footpath down the hill passed close by the edge ol the grave. 
and this ha^l ke[)t down the rank vegetation, but beyond, along 
the steep slope ot the ridge, the; weeds antl grass were growing 
i)reast hiL;li. A jihotogi'aphic engraving ot Ma'. l'orc(;'s grave 
is given, Chap. II, hig. 16. 

No. 2S. .Southwest of this |)oint is the graxc of Lieutenant 
(^rd, whose tragic death at the liands of a wounded .Sj)aniartl, 
whom he was directing to l)e caretl tor. shocked and L;rie\c(l 
the entire armw l.ieut. ( )rd was one ot (ien. I lawkins' aitls 
and showeil distinguished gallantry and efficiency. I le climbed 
a tall cocoanut tree on the banks of the .San luan. and from his 
sur\-e\' of the ridge ga\c (ien. ii.iwkins the tu'st inti'lligent 
inloi-nialioii of the .Spanish detences. lie took charge ot a 
platoon of soldiers who wvw. charging oxer the j)lain and had 
been somewhat demorali/ed 1>\' the loss ol their olticer. lb- 
led them, in the \< r\ front ol' the line, cpiite o\er the plain an<l 
up the ridge. While running oxer the ritle pit at the crest he 
saw a wounded Si).iniard King across the edge ol the trench. 
and mo\ ed b\' comi)assion, e\<n in tiie rush and tlush ol that 



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martial Graves 



victorious momcnit, turnt-cl to tlircct that the Spaniard should 
be taken out of the line of hre and placed behind the block- 
house, where he would be safe. The Spaniard, who was appar- 
ently an officer, drew his pistol and dischar^-ed it in Lieut. Ord's 
face, blowing- out his l)rains. The American soldiers, shocked 
and indio-nant at the deed, fell upon the assassin and clubbed 
him to death with the butts of their riHes. Ord was buried near 
by where he fell. One heard his death told everywhere 
throucrhout the Fifth Corps with \arying- details, but I have 
criven the account that all agree upon. 







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Fig. 43 
Grave of John A' IJndquist, -^d l'. S. hifantry, S,nt Juan Ridge. 



Xo. 29. North of the Siboney Road about four hundred 
yards, on the military crest of the northern slope of San Juan 
Rido-e, and between the lines of entrenchments are tour graves. 
They lie in a row ranged east and west. The pond is in the 
plain below, somewhat to the southeast. The names are not 
only marked upon headboards but are also carved on a guasima 
tree near bv, which stands opposite the grave of Andrew Ryd- 



Lhc JGattlc IRiDiic ot 5au 3iuii\ 



M3 



berL;'. The iiu-ii were all incnilx-rs of the ;^nl I . S. liilaiUr\' 
who (.lied (luriiiL;- the pcriotl siiccccdiiiL;' liic lialllc when IJiat 
I'l-L^iiiient ()ccii[)i(;d the hcML^hts. 

Xo. jO. ■■ lohii l\. Lin(l(|iiisl, AriilK:cr. COinpaiU' C. ;,ril 
I 'nitc'd Statrs Iiitaiili'v. I )ic(l .\iil;usI i _nh, iS(;S." The iiiouml 
is bordered widi slones, and in the eeiiire is ai'i'an_iL;(-d a cross 
ot while shells lakcn h'oin the gravel thrown up in diL,''|L;inL( the 
grave, (big- 4,i-) ^ ^n the otticial hst lie is entered as a |)ri\'ate 
of Company C, abo\e regiment. 



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Ik;. ^4 
Gnivi of Scr^eanl Utiiry Miller, j</ / . S. In '.ml 



Xo. 31. ".\ndrew l\\-dberg. 1 )ied August ist, i S98. 
R. \. I'."" This gra\e is in kont of a guasima tree. (See 
Cha|). II, big. 14.) A large stone is on either side ot" the head- 
board and one at the toot. A campaign hat rests above the bosom. 
The base of the mound has been edged all arouiul with sod. 

Xo. 32. "Sergeant II. Miller. Co. E. 3rd bifaiury. Died 
August 1st, 189S. R. I, I'." In the official list the death is 
eiven " AuL-iist i ilh. " 1 he mound is bordered at the l)ase 



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with stones, a large stone being placed at the foot. Al)ove and 
inside thereof is a fringe of sods whose green contrasts bright!)' 
witli the stone border and the gravelly soil of the mound. 

ll'i.i^-- 44-) 

No. ^^^^. " Private A. H. Missall, Compan\- F, 3d Infantry. 
Died August 1 2th, 1898." A large stone braces the head- 
board, and another boulder marks the foot. A fringe of sods 
is placed a little above the base, and a cross of white tresh- 
water shells is laid in the centre. (Pig. 45.) MissalTs home is 

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Fig. 45 
Grave of Adolph II. Missall, ^d i'. S. Infantry. 

I)lue Earth City. Minnesota, and his body was removed about 
the middle of November, 1898, b)' his l)rother, Mr. b'red. 
Missall. 

F"rom the little ceuK^tery of the Third Regular Infantry one 
passes northward and dc;scends the Ijrow of San juan Ridge as 
it graduall)' declines into the \ alley. ( )n the level land near 
the foot ot the hill is a cemetery of eight graves of volunteers 
from Illinois and Michigan. It is about two hundred and fifty 
yards from the wagon trail or side road diat curves around the 
extreme northern shoulder ol die ridge (see Folder I, big. 34), 
communicating with various parts of the .American encampment 



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aiul so pissiiiL;' oil to tlic cil)' ot Saiuia_L;o. About lour luiPiilrcd 
yards westerly toward the ciiy, one |)assfs throiii^h a lari;;*' and 
hcautitul L;r<>\<' <>t ro\al palm irtcs. and ib.f (lri\c ihrouj^h lliis 
urove gives one of the most interesting; liits ot tropical laiui- 
scaj)e seen in tliis \ icinity. IIk- graves are arrangcil aronnd a 
small giiasima tree, tho irri pointing toward the trunk. A 
tnrmicai-\ of rultiiig aiUs is located near the tree, and their 
cuspidor sha])(nl tumuli are raided at \arious j)oints near the 
grounds am,! be- 
tween them and 
the tree. 



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itois and A/iihigan I'otun- 
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A'it/i;e. 



-ineering thnaigii the thick grass and 
ouud them abundant on Morro Castle. 
When ascending the i)adi that /ig/ags around the clilT to the 
summit, I saw columns of ih-se creattn-es mi-ching with bits 
ot" cut-otT lep-ves in their m mdibles and waving above ilvir 
heads, a p<culi.irity which has given them the poi)ular name of 
the •• I'arasol Ant.' When I reached the summit the Inisy 



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workers were found close In' the dismantled eastern battery. 
In fact, their fresh-made tumuli were cast up almost beneath 
the butt of the guns. Tlie workers were thronoing- into the 
central gates bearing aloft their bits of green leaves, looking 
like a lilliputian army of Sunday-school scholars marching with 
their banners. I could not but wonder, were these industrious 
insects plying their task while Spanish guns were firing and 










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Cn-ave of Aihky Fields, ist Jlliuois VohiiiUtrs. 




shells from American ships were bursting around them? No 
doubt they did so ; a type of the army of industry in the insect 
world, prosecuting its humble arts of peace amidst the roar of 
human Ijattle and the clash of arms. If their wee bits of brains 
are capable of thinking of such matters, it is not unlikely that 
the current of their meditation may have flowed in the direction 
of the famous .Shakesperian character whose utterance has 
given a motto to a modern illustrated journal: " Wdiat fools 



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these mortals be I " — iiKiiiniiiL^ and killing; diic atiolhcr whc-n 
they niiL^ht be conilbrtabl\- ciillin;^ jiiic\- leaves aiul chewini;- 
them iiUo pulp ' 

List and Description of Graves 

Xo. 34. "Private .\shle\- i'ii-Kls. Died Au-. 1 7lh. 1S9S. 
Co. M., 1st Ills. \()1. Iiil." Ihis wrave has been decorated with 



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Crave pf Alhcrt Mick;I>on, at Illinois I'olutileers, 

much care. 1 1" ii^'. 47.) Tihs have been laid slantin<;-wise 
upon one another around the l^ase. formins^ a denticulated 
edo-e. The headstone is carefully carveil. and the word 
" PEACI^ " in la roe letters has i)een formeti alon- th<' centre 
of the mound by cartrid-es and rartritloe shells. 

No. 35. "Private jolm P.. l.inbero-. Co. P". 1 M Inf. Illinois 
\'ols. Died August loth. iSc,s;" Pinberir's i^rave is i)arily 
walled around with brick tiles, and in the middle of the mound 



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are laid out with the circular caps of cartridges thrust into the 
eartli, liis comi)any and regimental names thus: "Co. F ist 
Ills." The inscription is on a pine wood headboard. (See 
l*"ig-. 13, Chap. II.) 

No. 36. "Private Albert Mickelson, Co. A. ist Inf. 111. 
\'ol. Died at r)i\ision Hospital Aug-. 8, 1S9S." Mickelson's 
erave is bordered with bricks laid on edae, the headstone is a 
large brick tile, and a cross in double lines of cartridges is 
traced on the breast. (Fig. 48). 









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Xo. },-]. " D. P. Tennant, Co. K. 34th Inf. Michigan. Died 
.\ug. 3d, 1S98." The grave of Tennant is an earthen mound 
with a large brick tile at the head on which the abo\e inscrip- 
tion is carved (big. 49). 

Xo. 38. "Private R. B. Granger (or Ganger) Co. D, ist 
111. \'()1. Died Aug. 2 2d. 1898." The upper part of this 
grave is supported 1)\' bricks on either side, the remainder being 
an earthen mound. The inscription is cut ujjon a brick laid 
slantiiiLT across th(' '-rave's head, and in cartridges the word 
Pk.\( !•: in large letters is laid oft" along the entire centre. (See 
Pig. 10.) 



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No. 39. "I. Simonds, ,V|lli Miih. Aii^. 2ulh. I S98. Hand." 
It is (lou])tfiil whctlii)- the iniiial Icltcr is 1 or 'I\ and th«- naiiu- 
does not apiicar in ili<- War I )('partm('nt's ofhcial list. 

Xo. 40. "A. il. Xcwman, lO. !'>. I . S. Int. hied An;^. 
23d, 1S9S." A simple nionnd with a iiili'- cartritl;^re cross on 
the l)()S()m. 1 his name docs nol appi.ir <in die othcial list ot 
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Xo. 41. "Corp. C. C C'liainix rlain. (."o. I. ■\.\i\\ .\Iicli. 
l^icd Aul;-. 10, 1898." Chanihcrhiin's L;ra\r has a hrick cnclos- 
uic and til" inscription is car\<'d on a brick at the lu-ad (I'iL,^ 50). 

Xo. 42. Westward from the above named L,^roiip and (juitc 
near the road that leads to Santiago tl rouoh the jL^rove of royal 
palms, is the L;ra\c of Michael McGartlin. (Jnarterniaster Ser- 



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o^eant, Co. B, ist V. S. Cavalry, who fell July i, 1898. It 
woLikl seem from this location (supposing, of course, that Ser- 
geant McCiartlin was buried where he fell), that he was one of 
those who. with Lieut. Hugh Berkley of the First Cavalry, pur- 
sued after the enemy toward the palm grove on the way to San- 
tiago, beyond the northern shoulder of the ridge. Lieut. 

Hobson, from his 
room in the Reina 
Mercedes barracks, 
noted such a pur- 
suit by the ap- 
proaching firing."^' 
No. 43. West- 
ward about two 
hundred yards from 
the little cemetery 
of the Illinois and 
Michigan \'olun- 
teers is the grave 
ofCharles W.Rich- 
ardson, Private, 
Compan \- L. i st 
Illinois Infantry, 
who died August 
20, iSgS. The grave is well defined with an edging of stones 
and the name cut upon a tile used as a headboard (Fig. 51). 
It is located a little way from and midway between two royal 
j)alms which stand to the northward. 

No. 44. Westward from the grave of Richardson is that ot 









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Graves of Pyi-.uitcs Richaiuhoii [the innrcst) and Cliff Busby. 



*" The Sinking of the Merrimack'' p. 276. Col. Roosevelt api)ear.s to confnin this in his 
admirable article in Scribner's Magazine, April, 1S99. 



Clift Busby. Pri\ate 1. Conipaiu', ;,4ih Michigan XOliiiUccrs. It 
is in tlic o|)en plain at thtt loot ot tin- lon^^' wcstt-rn slope ol the* 
San I nan Ritloe, on the north side of th(! xmUcv and about 
three liundred \ards north of the Illinois and Mirhi^an cH-ine- 
ter\- ( l""i,L:. 51). The date of lUisby's death was not marked, 
and the name; does not ap])ear on my official copy. 

TurninL;" southward one crosses the road from Santiago and 
passini^- through a break in tli(; wire lence comes to the- larL,^c 
ceiba tree, populu'K' know n as the "Surrender 1 ree. ' Prop- 
erly it is •' the neL;()tiation tree,"' althoui^^h umlerneath it were 
siene(l the articles of capitulation between Maj.-( ieii. Shatter 
and the? representati\-es of the Iniied Slates and (ien. 1 oral 
and the representatives of the Spanish army. The formalities 
of the actual surrender occiu'red under a much smaller tree nearer 
the city. Gen. Wheeler-' describes this fine plant as in a orentle. 
sloping- field, co\-ered with luxuriant grass, a largt: and beauti- 
ful ceiba tree, the; trunk of which is nearly, it not (piite. titi\- 
feet in circumference. 'Yhr. Ijranches are broadly c-.\tendeil. and 
at the time of the capitulation conference were filled with 
exceedingh' rich foliage which gave an e.xcellent shade, covering 
an extensive area of ground. The place is not more than fifty 
or sixtv yards south of the niain .Santiago road, ami was prob- 
ably a little lU'arer to tlie .\merican lines than to those of the 
Spaniards. Some two hundred or three hundred yanls to the 
left and down the slope- of the hill was a tine s|)ring, which Iiad 
been protected with high walls of masonry, consiructed in a 
workmanlike manner. 

AI-)out fiftv yards from this tree tlu- miu of the (;ih 
U. S. X'olunteers. Col. Crane commanding, have made a little 
cemeter\- in whiih are burie-d one ot"fic-r and seven men of the 

*'• Tlie Santiago fainpaign." p. 177. The tree is Hofiibax ceibtt^ L. 



i>2 /l{>avrial C^v.ivci- 

comniand. The drawing ^Fig. 5-t was made tsom a sketch by 
Second Lieut. Paul H. McCook. of the Fifth Reguhr Infantry, 
and shows the graves as they appeared after the headboards had 
been erected bv Mr. Rhodes and his party from the Ouarter- 
masters Department. The tree is now surrounded by a double 
fence of barbed wire in order to protect it from destruction by 
soldiers and visitors in search of souvenirs. Warning boards, 
both in Spanish and English, are hung upon the stakes admon- 
ishing all persons not to injure the tree under penalty. The 
following list designates the graves : 

Xo. 45. First t ieut. Louis T. Barnett, 9th I . S. 
\'olunteers. Died September iS. iSoS. Lieut. Barnett's 
gTave is the inner one in the figure, of the two graves in the 
second row. 

Xo. 46. The grave next to Lieut. Barnett's is unmarked, 
but is presumably of a soldier of the oth \ olunteers. 

Xo. 47. The front gxave in the front row. nearest the tree. 
is that of an unknown American soldier. 

Xo. 4S. John Davis, private. C y A. Qth V. S. 

\ oiunteer Infantry, who lies in the scco:ivi grave in the front 
row, died September 13. 189S. 

Xo. 49. Piacide Jasmin, orivare. C^^^ C. cth L . S. 

\ olunteers, who is buried i:. : grave in the front row. 

died September 13. 1S9S. 

Xo. 5:-«. Alex. Pullman, private. Cc-^^ : ^ L. 9th L\ S. 
\ olunteers. who is buried in the fourth g: the front row, 

died September 15. 1S98. 

Xo. 51. James R. Banks, private. Comtany E. 9th L'. S. 
\ olunteers. died September ^^9$. His is : ::': i^^rave 

in the front row. 

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X'oliinteers, diet! September iS, 1898, and is in die sixdi orave 
in the front row. 

Xo. 5;,. Returnino- to the IlHnois and Michigan Cemetery, 
which is on the level around just beyond the northern slope of 
the San I nan Rid^e, one crosses the wagon trail, and pushing 
northward over the valle\-, fmds two graves. The first is that 

of •• ). \] , private, Seventeenth United States Infantry." 

The name is so indistincdy written that it cannot be made out. 
On consulting my copy of the official list I find that the only 
name among the " IVs " of the i 7th Infantry that could fill the 
above blank is "John V. I)urke, private, E Co.." who died 
July 2. I 8gS. 

Xo. 54. About forty paces to the northwest of the last- 
named grav(; is the burial place of Julius B. Weil, private, 
Comijany (i, 13th V. S. Infantry, killed July i, 1898. This 
young man was a Pennsylvanian, his residence being at 
\Vilkesl)arr('. from which his mother addressed me through a 
fi-iend an inquiry concerning the location of her son's grave. 
The fact that it had l)een found and marked, and that in due 
time the remains of her son would be restored to her, was a 
great comfort to this afflicted mother. 

Xo. 55. Just beyond the edge of this valley on the hillside 
west and near the northern end of the American entrenchments 
erected after thc^ batde of July i st. is the; grave of John 
dray, private;, \' Company, 17th U. S. Infantry, who appears 
to have been killed in the fighting of July 2d. At least 
he is entered on die official list as having died on that day. 

Crossing the valley westward of San Juan Ridge one comes 
to the hill immediately overlooking the city of .Santiago, which 
is known as •' Madre Vieja." It is apju-oached from the city 
by a road which runs southeasterly and ascends the slope ot 



TLbc .IGattlc IRi^oc ot Sail 3uan !».-. 

the hill, mcikiiiLj^ a (litViciill pull tni- the scrawii)- horses us(!tl l.\- 
the liAckincn ot SaiUia^o. 1 )iirinL;' the skirmishes loUowiini- 
the ])attles ot July ist, a nimilici- ot' men were killed ii])on these 
heiL^lus, kelon^in^- tor the most ])art to the 'Iweiuieth liit'antr\-, 
Ikites' IJri^ade and the Second, I'wcnlx tirsi and ICnih Intantr\- 
of I nitetl Slated KeLi^ulars, Peai'son's llrij^ade. \\\v. dt;ail are 
buried just outside th(? enli-enchimiUs and upon the south side of 
the same. Lieut. I\ee\-es, an aid on lh<' slatf Ot ( ieii Dales, in an 
excellent chart which he prepareil ot" a i)orlion ot" ihe martial 
graves on San Juan Ridoe and vicinliw has i^ixcn a list ot" most 
of the solditM's buried at this point. .Mr. Rhotles jnissetl over the 
same ground and added several names to the list. There art! 
two names, that of Prixate- Kdward I'londe and Private l"r.ink 
E. Hoppe, \vh()S(; burial places, as tar as I know, ha\ e unt been 
located except ujxjn the chart of Lieut. Reeves. .Mi. Rhotles 
was not able to find them. 



The List and Description of Graves 

\o. 50. rurmng southwestward ti'om llie group ol gi'a\'es 
at the .Surrender Tree, and crossing the little l)rook that runs 
in the midst ol the \alle\', one asceiuls the northeastern slope 
ot the Madre \ ieja, and on die crest ot the hill, just msidi- the 
terminal ot tlu- entreiu hments, is the grave ot an unknown 
-Xmei'uan soldier. 

No. 57,, The next gravtr to the westward is ihat ol Lei- 1\. 
(iodfrey, i)rivate, Company ( i, i^uh L. .S. Intautry, died |uly 
I, iSqS. 

No. 5S. William .S. Sims, pi'ixate, Company 1 I, oth int"anlr\-^ 
U. S. A., died July 7. 189S. 

No. 59. Corporal C. \i. larner. Company I . Sth ( )hio 



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U. S. V. Infantry. His name docs not appear on an)' copy ol 
the official list. 

No. 60. Corporal John W. McCartney, Company D, 10th 
U. S. Infantry, died July 1, 189S. 

Just westward from the above graves and in the northwest- 
ern anole of the entrenchments is a laro-e m'ave containino- four 
bodies as follows : 

No. 61. Fred W'eisheit, private, Compan\' A, 21st U. S. 
Infantry, died July i, IiSqS. 

Xo. 62. William Davis, private, Companx' A, 21st U. S. 
Infantry, died July i, 1898. 

Xo. 63. Robert McClatchey, private, Company C, 21st 
U. S. Infantry, died |uly i, 1S98. 

Xo. 64. A. Tomkinson. private, Company H. 21st U. S. 
Infantry, died July i. 1898. 

Southward ot the above large grave is another mound 
which contains three soldiers as follow^s : 

Xo. 65. Walter Austin, private. Company G. loth U. S. 
Infantry, died July i. 189S. 

No. 66. Felix McCleary, private, Company G. loth C S. 
Infantry, died [uly 1, 1898. 

Xo. 67. Benjamin F. doling, private. Company F, 21st 
U. S, Infantry, died Jul\- i, 1898. 

Xos. 68 and 69. Southward of the above are two unmarked 
graves. 

Xo. 70. Xear the southern terminus of the entrenchments 
and a short distance from the road is the grave of Capt. Charles 
\V. kowell, of die 22d U. S. Infantry. This gallant ofhcer 
was killed b\- a cannon shot from the Spanish heights beyond 
the American entrenchments during the exchange of shots 
on July 10, 1898. 



Zbc .iSattlc ^Rl^oc ot San }\\.m !•: 

Nos. 71 and ~2. lust Ixyond ( apl. Ri iwcll's ora\e to the 
southward arc Iud iimnarkcd graves ol iiiikiKiun AiiKriiau 
soldiers. 

Crossing the road lo the southward and a hld(! alio\c ili«- 
road arc located three i^raves, as lollows : 

No. 73. WiUiani I ). I )cnij)sler, piaxale. C()in|)an\- C. rd 
U. S. Infantry, thed |ul\- _;, 1S9S. 

No. 74. John A. Lyttoii, ])ri\.itc, Conipain C. jd l. .s. 
Infantry, cHed |uly 2. iSqS. 

No. y^. llionias I\\an. priN'ate, ConipanN' ( , 2d I . S. 
Infantry, died |ui\- 1. 1S9S. 

No. 76. Near the l)ase of the Madre \'icja Mill on the 
northern side of the road Lieut. Re(;ves lias located th<* i^rave 
ot i'rank ]{. llopjic, i)ri\ate, C'oinpain .\, ;d l. S. lnfanir\_ 
who died ] iiK' _:;, i SgS. 

No. 77. I'urlhcr u|) the slope toward the hei^inniiiL,^ of the 
northern line ot cntrcnchnKMits is located the ^^nu*' (»1 1-dward 
Ploud. private, Company \'., 21st I . S. Intantry. who died 
July I, I SgS. 

The manner in which this hrave soKlier met his death has 
been related by Mr. P)onsal. .About tour o'clock on tin- after- 
noon of the I St of |ul\ the men ot Pearsons briiL^^ade were 
cliuL^inL; lo ihc crest ot Madi'c \ ieja, praying; tor iiiL^hl. »>r 
artillcr\-, or iiUrcnchinL; tools. ainlhiuL;- to relieve thtir desjx-rate 
plight. rhe\ were nearl\ crazy with thirst, of which they 
complained more bitterly than of the unceasine fire from the 
Spanish works. .Sonic ot them became delirious from the he.it. 
and, with their Ion u;ucs h.mL;in.L;' out. losmj^ all sense or aj)|)r«-cia- 
tion of dancer, would staml uj) and expose thems<-lves .is they 
looked around in the hope of discoveincr water nearer than the 
San Juan Creek, that seemed so distant. Ihe situation became 



98 /IDartial Graves 

unbearable, antl at last I'loud \olunteerecl to go to the stream 
and fill as many canteens as he could carry. Slinoing about 
his shoulders a number of empty canteens, he made a clash 
across the hundred yards or so of open space, during which 
time he was immediately under hre, being in plain view of the 
Spanish trenches. The bullets whistled all about him as he 
ran, but he passed through the leaden hail unscathed, and as he 
darted down the gulley which led back to the stream, our 
fellows in the trenches gave him a great cheer. They waited 
long and patiently, but he never returned. When darkness 
came on, and under cover of night the regular water detail was 
sent back, they found Ploud lying upon his face, half way 
down the ravine, with the heavy canteens of his comrades, 
which he had filled at the stream, strapped around him. He 
was dead — shot through the heart. 

Beside him lay his campaign hat, on which he had written, 

" E. Ploud, 2ist Infantry, Santiago, July ," He had left 

the date blank, intending to fill it, when the city should be 
taken, with date of the capture. With a touch of sentiment 
which often came out in unexpected ways among cjur soldiers, 
when Santiago fell some of the men ot his company made a 
pilgrimage to Ploud' s grave, and painted into the blank space 
upon the rim of his hat, which had been placed upon the mound, 
the date of the actual surrender by the Spaniards.'-' 

* Stephen Bonsai: "The Kight for Santiago." 



CHAPTER V 
The Bloody Bend and the San Juan Plain 



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HE great now are gone who attempted to sa\e, 
The green grass is growing abune their grave ; 
Yet the sun through the mist seems to promise to me, 
"I'll shine on ye yet in your ain countree." 
Hame, hame, hame 1 Oh hame I fain would be ? 
O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree ! 

The bud comes back to summer 

And the blossom to the bee ; 
lUit I'll win back — Oh never. 

To my ain countree. 
I'm leal to the high Hea\en, 

Which will be leal to me, 
An' there I'll meet ye a' sune 

Frae my Ain countree. 

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the open. The men \vack;cl through the waters to deploy in 
battle line behind the shelter of the second bank, and along 
that section of the road which crosses the plain almost due 
north and south. The road here is below the level of the plain, 
hence the name '• Sunken Road," and is l)ordered with a heavy 
hedge of bushes and small trees, which gave enough shelter 
from the enemy's terrific volleys to allow the battle line to form 
before making the final charge. Thus the infantry column 
formed in the Sunken Road, Gen. Hawkins' brigade, made an 
obtuse angle with that behind the second bank. Gen. Wikoff's 
brigade, and in their rushes across the plain the two columns 

approached the en- 
trenched ridge at 
first on parallel and 
then on diverging 
liries, which spread 
out like a fan as 
they struck the 
ridge. The dia- 

Skelch map line of a(h'ance of infanlry on San /nan Hill. oramatic plan (FlO". 

55) approximatel)' i)resents the lines ot advance as represented 
to the writer by participants. 

The Second Brigade of Col. E. P. Pearson passed along 
the Aguadores Road, crossed the lower ford of the San Juan, 
following the Third Brigade of Col. W'ikoff. Moviu'^^ along 
the southern and westc-rn c;dge of the plain, i)artly shc^ltered by 
the second bank of the river, th(t Tenth and Second Regiments 
marched forward in good order toward the little knoll on the 
left of the American position (See Ma}), k'ig. 36), which was 
Gen. Kent's objective point on the left. There they deployed 
and swept westward, striking the southern ridges ot the Madre 



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X'ieja Ilill. ainltlrox*- li;uk the cnciny in tli<- direction ot tlu-ir 
trenches, tluis lakiiiL;- a position nearer the cit)' than any other 
poiaion ot the hne. Ihi- I'wenty-ln'sl Ive^inient ol Pearson's 
bri^'adc was inoxcd o\ci' the main road to- sii])])()rt ( ien. 
Hawkins' lirst Ih'i^ade in its attack on the southern slope of 
Fort San | nan I lilk 

I confess to l)t; somewhat pn//led as to the exact i)osition of 
the rwentN-first Regiment in theassanlt, Imt have j^dxcn its tlis- 
position as in the official report of MajtM'-( len. Kc.-nt. command- 
ing- the Infantrx' Division. I found no tracers that the regiment 
was ])resent with Hawkins' brigade diirin- the assault: but, 
jud^in^ 1)\' the dead buried beliiml the entrenchments ot th*- 
Ahidre \ ieja. a numlxr ot this regiment wer(,' killetl in the battle 
of lulv I St, and were buried in the position occui)ied by the re<^i- 
meiu immediateh' thereafter. k'oi- this reason, in the dia^i'am- 
atic map, V^i:;. 5S, I haxc placed the regiment with its proper 
brigade on the right of the d'entli and .Second. It is possible 
that a i){)rtion of it at least may ha\e been held in reserxc to 
suj)i)ort Hawkins' brigad(\ If the dead on the crest ot Madre 
Vieja were killed while supporting 1 lawkins, the\- were lak(Mi 
awav bv their comrades tor burial within tiieirouii lines, (jcn. 
Hates' hitlependent Brigade was detached trom I. aw ton's 
Division immediately after the tight at Caney, and moved to 
the extreme let't, where it took position on the morning ot |uly 
2d along with I'earson's brigade on the heights ol Madre \ ieja. 

The necessity of doing something to escape Irom their 
perilous position, and the seeming impossibility of moving in 
any direction but torward, caused the assauh upon Siin |uan 
Heights. One must have been upon th<' ground to s(;e the 
full force of this reasoning. A glance at the; rough maps 
accompan\ing these notes will show the situation on that dt-ead- 



104 /IDavtial Graves 

fill tono-ue of land lying- between the two branches of the San 
I nan River, the upper fork and the lower fork or Aguadores. 
On the south, the American columns were crowded along die 
trail known as the Aguadores Road, with the stream on one 
side, and a high wooded hill on the other, which hemmed 
them in from that direction. On the north was the fortified 
Kettle Hill girdled about with well-nigh impassable woods. 
l)chind them to the east was the narrow road over which they 
had come, now thronged with wounded men and litter bearers 
moving to the rear, and a ghastly fringe of dead comrades over 
whom clouds of buzzards were already hovering. The road 
was but a narrow ribbon of open space stretching through as 
dense a chaparral as tropical conditions could produce, a well- 
nigh impassable tangle of shrubs, trees, bushes, prickly cacti 
and wild trailing vines that grasped legs and arms and body 
and face, uncanny things, like the tentacles of devil fishes. 
Away to the northeast, toward Caney, the roar of batde 
was heard, so long continued that it showed that Lawton's 
troops were having serious opposition, with what results 
Heaven only knew. Thus the two American divisions, crouching 
and crawling in disjointed and dejected masses in the jungle 
aloncr the San luan River, were like the Israelites at the Dead 
Sea, hemmed in between the mountains on either flank, retreat 
cut off from the rear, and only one way to go — forward ! But 
there was no recognized leader there, like Moses, with right 
and power to give command. Circumstances had compelled 
a temporar\' abdication of the Fifth Corps commander-in- 
chief Who would e.xtricate them? The valor of Vara del 
Rey anil liis six hundred Spaniards had defeated and nullified 
the plan of campaign. Lawton's arrival on the right, for 
which Kent -And .Sumner were to wait, was eliminated from the 



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<'<liiali()n l)y ih-il iiiuhoiiL^Iu of stand at (."aiii\. What was to 
Ix' (lone ;^ l.ii- in that jiiiil:I<-<1 nn-sojjotainia, alrcad)- " a tlark 
and Moody -round," and he shot to dcatli, as so nian\- of their 
conirack's had Itccn, without striking' a blow .•* Surely not ! 
I'all hack under that nuirderoiis fire, an arnu' in the tlcmoralizii- 




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T)aii (itross Battle Plain to the Bloody Briul, on the soulhca>/(>n <n i. 

tion of defeat crowding' to escape 1)\- one narrow trail, like the 
sands in an lioiir L^lass tlro]). dro|i. dro])]iin;,^ throuu;h a pinhole 
h'oni iJie iij)pei' to the lower hniiiej .^ 1 hat were certain disor- 
ganization of the arm\', ine\ital»le death to nian\\ a thin;^ 
intolerable to do. 



Kxi /IDartial Graven 

Before them la\' a broad, open plain, reaching to the 
heights of San Juan with its gray hnes o( ritle pits volleying 
and thundering death. Then came the impulse, first voiced by 
General Hawkins, as clear a word of Providence as that which 
came to Moses — "Say ye to the people that they go forward! " 
At all events it was a military necessity. It was the strategy of 
common sense. It came to others as well. " W^e shall storm 
the height," said (jeneral Sumner, pointing to the IMue House 
I iill. "because we must !" Colonel Rc^osevelt telt the impulse 
and took the responsibility of ordering his Rough Riders to 
advance. Field officers, captains and lieutenants everywhere, 
and the men themselves straining like hounds at the leash, felt 
the same impulse. " The army's safety lies in getting out of 
this labyrinthian purgatory — into yon open field — up that 
height ! Better die trying to seize it than King here seeking 
cover in \ain I "" Before them was the plain waving with 
guinea grass and spotted with trees. Beyond that the long 
ridge crowned with its 1)lockhouse over which the scarlet flowers 
of the flamboyant tree were trailing. Alas, there would be 
scarlet of anothc;r hue beneath those blossoms by and b\-. But, 
no matter ! " The nearer the crest, the safer ! Up ! Forward ! " 
A glance at the chart which indicates the distribution of the 
graves, will show how correctly they reasoned. At the edge 
of the field, just where the troops broke from the jungle and 
the Sunken Road, the gra\(;s are thickest, and then again on 
the crest of the ridge. In the middle flcUl few arc? buried ; at 
the toot ol the ridge not one. 

Lieut. -Col. Miley, Gen. Shafter's aid, in the absence of 
his chief, took the responsibility and approved the verdict of 
the army. I lawkins' bugles sounded to the charge. Out ot 
the Sunken Road, through the thic-ket hed^c, through the wire 



fence l)i-()k<- the Sixth and Sixicciuh Inlanlry. accomitanicil 1)\- 
a rcninanl ot the Sc\cnl\ first \( \v NOrk hu<j^i^'ini]^ tht-ir Sprin;:^"- 
fiekl ritlcs. Into tin- L;rass\- plain ihry pushed, under th<- lull 
blaze of the torrid sun. Ilien thi; first rusli began. Southward 
on the left of Hawkins" brigade, witli the P)l()f)dy i^x-nd as a 
pi\()t. W'ikoff's brigade scrambled oxer tin; second enibank- 
nu-nt. antl the 'ihirteenth, \inth and TwcMity-fourih inlantry 
joined in the advance. W'ikoff fell, kilh-d at tlic licad ot his 
brigade. Worth, his successor, f<-lh l.iscimi. Worth's succes 
sor, fell, anel Lieut. -Colonel, now ( icii. bwers, with the 1 hird 
Brig-ade started oxer the plain for the southern shoulder ol the 
ridge hard upon the lead of the hirst P)rigad(;. 

The loss of our troops at tlie battle of San luan was 
severe. Cien. Kent reported his losses on luly i si, in the hirst 
Brigade, 5 officers and 3S men killed, i ^; officers and 224 men 
wounded and 4c; missing, man\' ot whom were doubtless killed. 
This was 16 per cent, of the brigade strength. 1 he 1 hird 
Brigade lost 6 officers and 29 men killed, 9 officers and 177 
men woiuided and 9 men missing. Ihe Second P)rigade. Gen. 
Pearson, which was not so activel\- engaged, lost i officer and 10 
men killed, and 10 ofhc(;rs and 62 men woundetl. Ihe grand 
totals arc 12 officers and 77 men killed, 32 ofhcers aiul 40; men 
woimdetl and 5S missing, 642 in all. Of these, the hirst P>rig 
ade lost 32() : the Third, 1 So : the .Second, S;,. 

Maj.-(ien. Leonard Wood, then colonel commanding the 
Secoinl Brigade, Ca\alr\" l)i\ision, consisting ot the hirst Regular 
Cavalry. Tenth Regular Cavalry and the Rough Ritlers. reported 
that he took into action 75 officers and 1446 men, and lt)st 21 
officers killed and wounded and 217 men killed and wounded. 
This is a loss of 2') per cent, of officers and 15 per cent, of 
enlistetl men. Col. Roosevelt in his report states that the 



108 riDartial Graves 

Rough Riders wrnt into the fight about 490 strong. Eighty-six 
men were killed or wounded and 6 missing, and the great heat 
prostrated nearU' 40 men. some of them among the best in the 
regiment. This loss, not counting the men prostrated (some of 
whom subsecpicntly died), amounts to 18.7 per cent, of the 
entire command, which appears to be the heaviest loss suffered 
by any single organization engaged in the battles of July ist. 

Maj.-Gen. Wdieeler states '^' tliat his Cavalry Division lost 
18 per cent, of its number, or nearly one in five. Gen. Kent's 
Infantry Dixision lost 1334 per cent., or nearly one-seventh; 
while Lawton's Division lost 7 per cent., or one in fourteen. In 
the Cavalry Division, the proportionate losses were twice as 
great as those in man)' ot the great battles of Europe. At 
Waterloo the English lost about 10 per cent., and the average 
loss in Napoleon's great battles did not exceed 8 per cent. 

This briet summary vividly presents, on the one hand, the 
serious character ot the task undertaken by the American sol- 
diers and the enormous exposure to which they were subjected ; 
and, on the other hand, the vigor and valor of the Spanish 
defence of their entrenchments. One can hardly resist the con- 
clusion that could less time have been given to the Spanish 
commanders to complete the defences of Sin )uan, and the 
Americaii army could have been moved promptly forward after 
the battle ot Las (iuasimas, our success would have been 
achieved earlier and with far less loss of life and limb, and with 
less ot that exhaustion and sickness which were more tatal than 
Spanish bullets. I lowtner, it would seem from Lieut, Hobson's 
notes -j" that even betbre the arrival of our troops, the Spaniards 
had begun to fortify the northeastern hills surrounding San- 

* " The Santiago Campairjn," p. 227. 

t " The Sinking of the .J/rvv/wr?!," p. 249. 



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ticiL;(), as though a\\;irc thai our .l^^allh would b<- ti'oin thai 
direction. IIk- L^rcatcst loss occurred on the road and trails 
approaching the ford, at the ford of the San juan near the 
Bloody Rend, and while awaiting- in the Sunken Road and behind 

the enihankincnl ot the plain. 1 he L;ra\H's arc sealtcrcil oxer 
tlu- plaiii, ,L;ro\\inL^- l(_:ss lrc(|iiciu as one. ai)])roai-hfs the rid«^e, 
antl \Tr)' Irequcnt as he nears tiie Sunken Road and the lUoody 
Bend. (See Map and Chart, k'i^-. 30.) 



List and Description of Graves 

Xo. 7S. In the midst ot tlic plain, almost midway Ix-twcrn 
San luan Kid^c and the ri\er is a L;ra\c which appears to 
contain two kodies. rh{' 
marks are " j. k. W. F. 
24-1 " and ■' I. 1 )olan, Co. 
C. i;.." ••J. k. W." was 
identihed k\- Col. Crane, 
of the 9th C S. \'olun- 
teers. as tin: initials ot 
Sergeant John 1'. W iliiams, 
F Co., J 4th Infantry, the 
Colonels own company ot 
the rej^ulai' arm\'. Col. 
Crane's reL^imcnt was en- 
camped on .San juan 
Ridofe at the time ot mv 
visit, and he kindU acrom- l-'i'- 57— <''•'• ('>'""■ -if Srr^/. iiw/iatn.f (Jmzr. 
pamed me o\(T the plam and pointed out a numkei' ol iL^rax'es. 

Xo. 79. " I. I )oran, Co. C, i;,th Intantry I'. S."" Private 
|ohn 1 )oran is kuried in the same .L;ra\e as .ScrL^canl W iliiams. 
and died on the same dav. 





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Xo. 80. Going directly east toward the road one finds a 
sino-le oTa\e, much sunken, under a lar^e tree. The headboard 







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Gni'i'c of Private 'I hcodore Bt oivii, 0th I . S. Infantry. 

is inscriljtxl : " l\t. Theodore !)rown. Co. 1). 6th U. S. Infantry. 
Killed |ul\- I St. 1898." (Fig-. 58.) I'his is probably the F)rown 
of the Sixth Infantry, who stood in the Hattle Plain during the 
charo^e, holdin'-- l)ack a broken wire; (^ntans^lement for his lieu- 



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tenant to i)ass. Ahhoiioh Manser Imllets were raining- aronnd 
him. the habit of discipline was so stron^- that he htted his 
unoccupied hand to sahite the officer as he went 1)\-. In a tew 
moments Brown lay (.lead upon the field. 

No. Si. W'alkiuL;' southerly throuL^h the lono- grass one 
stops at the o-rave of Capt. .\le.\ander M. W'etherill, 6th U. S. 
Infantrx'. It is cpiite nt^ar the heav\- fringe of shrubbery that 

skirts the plain at the edge of 
fj-'' the Sunken Road. It has been 

decorated by the Lafayette Post 
of the ( I rand Army of the 
Rej)ublic. I)rooklyn, N. Y., of 
which Capt. Wetherill was a 
member. A cross ot cartridges 
s(*t within a circle ot the same 
is arranged above the bosom. A 
small I'nited States flag sur- 
mounts the decoration ot the 
Post, and its bright waving 
folds give a prett)' touch of life 
and color amid the scene. 

No. S2. " C. D. Jacob, Ir. 
Private, Trooj) C, 1st Caxalry. 
Killed July 1st, 1898." The 
grave of Charles I). Jacob is placed near the Sunken Road, a 
few paces trom the tringe of shrubbery. The inscription is 
car\ed on an inclined s(piare of marble. This is under the 
same tre{,' with Lieut. Michie's, antl tht; two gra>es are on 
opposite sides and tace in opposite directions, that of Jacob 
looking north (I'ig. 61). Jacob's grave marks the furthest 
southern point which the cavalrymen appear to have reached, 




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Headboard al Capt. IVelhenll' s Grave. 



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showino- that hvrc the men of the two divisions were inter- 
mingled. 

Xo. 83. "Lieut. Dennis M. Michie, 17th Infantry, Killed 
in action luly ist, 1898." The grave of this gallant officer is 
under the same tree as tlic^ above, the head close to the trunk, 
the body facing nearly south (Fig. 61). The inscription is on 
an erect marble headstone. The mound is edgfed with small 
stones, and has a wire enclosure in need of repair, Lieut. 
Michie was a son of Prof. Michie, of West Point Military 



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Fig. 62 — C,ra7'e of Private Frank Giaffin. 

Fig. 6j — Grave of Corporal Wallace, bth F. S. Infantry. 

Academ\-. lie was one of the aids of Gen, Hawkins, and was 
killed at the river near the Bloody Bend while directing the 
soldiers to a point where they might cross the deep and narrow 
stream Ijy a huge fallen tree over which the General and his 
staff had reached the i)lain. 

Xo. 84. '• Graftin, Reinterred 6 feet X. W. of original 
grave by members i st I). C. Vol. Co. D." Private Prank 
Graffin (as the name reads on the official list) of Company A, 
6th U, S. Infantry, and CVjrporal Wallace of the same company, 



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are l)iiric(.l on the wc-st side ot the siiiikcii road close iij; a'^aiiist 
the hank and ihc ihick hcdL^c which skirts th(; i)lain i l^'jors. 62, 
63 and r'iu-. 2. Cliap. I). I'hey arc huricd in a line, ( ircdhn's 
i^Tax'c hcinor the sonthcrn one 'I"hc\' are enchjsetl in separate 
fences, tornicd ol lon^; slicks hud upon forked stakcts wliich arc 
ready to lall lo pieces. (iralVin's ^raxe has near tiie head a 
cross ot cartrid;.4es inserted into lh(; L^roiuid, prohahK' from his 
own cartritli^e ho.x. 1 wo lampaiL^n hats are 
placed on the mound and a tin plate is leaned 
up a<4'ainst the h)ot, doubtless a part of th.e fallen 
soldier's oultit. lie was killetl |ul\' 1, i SqS. 

Xo. 85. ••Wallace, Co. A. I'.'s. inf." Ihe 
companion L;ra\ e to ( "irathn's is that of COrporal 
Hdmond R. Wallace. It is enclosed in the same 
fashion and located alouL^side ot it on the road 
m which the ti'oiii)S were formed hcfore the final 
rush. .\ campaiL;-n hat lies on the mound. 1 he 
only inscription is on a stick thrust into the 
mound which indicates that he loelon^ed to A 
Co. of the oth r. S. lnfantr\-. I le was killed 
jul\- I. 1898. 

Xo. 86. •• l^"i\-ate Ivohert ColliuL;', Co. (1. kig. 64 

I 6th Int. Kilhnl July I St, l8c)8." South of the MarJtcr on thes'm'e 
above, in the same road, hut on the op|)()site "^ Corporal Wal- 

side, is the L.;ra\'e of l\ol)eri C'ollinL^. It is closi; 
lip a_i.;'ainst the hank, and is cnbow aa-ed b^- the dense over- 
hanging^ shrubbei'w Ihe whole effect is one of riistTc beauty. 
It is enclosed b\ a wire fence and th<! inscri|ition is punched 
in upon a i)iece of sheet tin ( Fii^. (^"^ . 

Xo. 87. "Doran, Co. V , hth IntV About fifty paces south 
of the L:rave of Lieut. Michie is a mound under a tree* Ix-'arinL"" 



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the above inscription. It is not tar from tlie roadside, and is 
the araveof Corporal John Doran, or Dorn. as the name is 
spelled on the ofhcial list. 

Xo. SS. "Private Conselyea. Co. R. 13th Inf. killed m 
Action fulv ist, 98." Charles Conselyea and two comrades 
(Nos. 89 and 90) appear to be buried together in a larg-e grave 
on the edge of the path leading along the angle of the plain to 




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Enclosed grave of Roberl Colling. 

the San jiian Kixerat the- IMoody Ik-nd. The jjath forks around 
the graves, which is situated on the slope of the second bank, 
near th(; ford. TIk^ inscriptions arc- made in pencil on three 
narrow pieces of a small box-lid which were 1>roken down, but 
laid upon the mound beside a campaign hat. Tuttsot tall grass 
girdle the edges. 

No. 89. "Harry C. Slricklcr, Privt. Co. 1>. i :,th Inf. Killed 
luly I St, 1S9S." I'roljably buried in the same grave as No. 88. 



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Xo. go. •• l')arlhi)li>nit'\\ I'.illcry. Corp. Co. l'>. i,uh Int. 
killftl |uly I. iSgS." l'rol);il)ly ori-inally Iniriccl in th<- same 
orave as Conselyea and Sirirklcr. 

In the nei^-hborhood of the -ra\e of l'i-i\a!<: l\o:o, and 
near the centre of ilir pl.iin. Mr. l\ho(h-^ found two -raves, 
one marked with ih(; nanu- of 1 larry C". SirickU-r. Comi)any I'., 
i;,th I'nited Stales Infantry, and the other with the name 
of r.. Caller)-. Private, Company 1'., i ;.ih L'nited .stales 
Infantr)-. lie also found the markers bearing these names on 
tile lar_o-e mound above 
described, as 1 had lett 
them. I can account lor 
the (.liscrepancy only by 
supposing" that the bodies 
were su bstujuen tly re 
mo\-ed without i"emo\inL;- 
the markers which were 
placeel upon the- common 
o^rave. I have incHcated on 
the chart ( Id^-. ;,6) the 
location of these two graves ^•^.^^..^, ^y corporai joh,, Dom,,, „,.„■ /<ioo.,y /v, //:/. 
bv the numbers Sqa and 

QOA. resi)ectively, showine- the; approximate points at which Mv. 
Rhodes found tliem, but haxc left m\- own record as made on 
the spot. 

Xo. gi. •• I'aiil Kuiled-c, i ,uh C.S.I. Killed in .\ction. 
July 1st, iS()S." Xear the ford, close to th<- junction ot the 
.San I nan and Agnadores Rivers, arid in the angle of tlie 
l)lain, known as the " l)lood\- I'x'nd," are tour -raxes. I hat of 
Corporal Rutledge, of .\ Comi)any. is enclosed with Private 
Wright's in a stpiart- rustic fence, wliose stakes, tiiree on each 



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side, are siipportttl 1)\- harliccl wire ])in(l(*rs. '1 he niountls are 
oreen witli o-rass and other plants, Wris^ht's bein^' almost 
covered, and a heavy j^rowth of shrubbery and ^rass surrounds 
the fence. The board at the head of Rutledge's grave is 
surmounted b\- a cross (Fiq". 68). 

No. 92. " 'J'homas \\'ri-ht, Co. A. 13th T. S. Infantry." 
A rude cross is placed at the head of the mound bearing- the 
above inscription (Fis^- 68). 






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Grave of Priva/es Consclyta and S/ricl-Ier and Corpinal Callcry, near Bloody Bend. 

No. 93. "Lieut. \V. A. Sater, 13th V. S. Infantry." The 
grave of 1 st i.ic-ut. William A. Sater is a little nearer the ri\er 
than the above, and is enclosed by a barbed wirt' lence sup- 
ported by four rustic stakes. The headljoard bears the above 
inscription, and llicre is also a footboard. 1 he tropical growth 
of plant life is fast shutting in this and other graves. They 
are onl\' about ten paces Irom tht- stream, and the heavy floods 



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xnooov? Jbcno ano ^^aii :i\\m\ ipiaiu "•- 

in the raiiu" season i)r()l)alil\' will oxciilow thcni. I he path 
that leads to the ford, a taxorite hathinjj^ place tor the troops, is 
ahout ("ifteen feet from the L:ra\<^'s (I'ii;'. 6q). 

Xo. ()4. '• Capl. John 1 )ruin, loih l'. S. Int." 1 he \aiaiu 
orave of this L;allant ottieer, whose remains ha\c heen renioxctl 
to the Initecl States, is one ot" the al)o\c .L^rou]) ot tour, and is 
north ot' and close to the L^raxcs ot I\iitlcd-<- and \\'ri_L;ht. 

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Graves of Paul Rutledge aii.f 'Hiodios Wright, at lU.w.iv /uii.i. 

The number of graves clustered within this corner oi the plain 
well justifies the name of " the Bloody IW-nd " which i)articii)ants 
in the tp^ht have oiven it. Colonel W'ikott'. who conunanded 
the Third Ih-i^adc; of Kent's Uixision, was killed at this ])oinl 
at 12.05 P- '''"'•• '^hhouL^h huried ac'ross the ri\cr some tlistance 
alono- the Aguadores Road. Lieut. -Col. W. S. Worth, of the 
Thirteenth Infantrv, who succeeded him as Hrioade Commander. 



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was wounded here. I.i(nit. E. H. Liscum. ot the Iwenty-fourdi, 
who succeeded Worth, was wounded ahnost immediately there- 
after, and was succeeded by Lieut. -Col. Kwers, of the 9th 
Infantry, who sur\i\ed and led the brigade up the ridge. 7dius 
this brigade had tour commanders within about ten minutes, a 
record of casualties in general officers rarely if ever equalled. 

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(Jraz'i- of J.iiitt. Saler, at Bloodv Bc'tuf. 

Xo. 95. Just across the Sunken Road from the gra\e of 
Lieut. .Sater. on a side trail that leads down to the junction of 
the Aguadores and San Juan Ki\crs, is the grave of Corporal 
John McConville, Co. E., 13th U. S. Infantry, killed July 1 st, 
189S. 

Xo. 96. 'llie grave of Richard X. Dowling is about seven- 
ty-tive yards south of Lieut. iMichie's, in tlie field. It is enclosed 
l)y thick stakes and sticks laid in log cabin fashion. The? hat 



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rests oil lh(; hosoni , a tile lies Ix-xond it. 1 he L^i'iiss has already 
almost lihldcn the eiu-losiirc, Imi the insci'iplK >ii is on a lioanl 
fastened in ihi- middle ot a tall stake or braiu h at the l^hu'^' s 
head, so that it shows atar hke a banner. 1 he inseription is : 
"Richard I )o\vlinL; Private Co I'' 13th Inlt. SantiaL^o, |ul\' ist, 
I (S9S We mnnrn our loss. K. 1. 1'."" (i'i^s. 70. 71). 

No. (;7. •' |ohn |. Kiernan, l'ri\at<; Co. C, 13 U. S. Inf. 
killed Iiil\' 1st, I SgS. Rest in peace" This inscrij)tion is cut 
into a l)(v\ lid placed ahox'e 
a L^rax'e m a hollow under 

the shelter ol the decli\'it\' 
which toi'ins the further 
l)aid< ot the strt^am. I'he 
plain drops away here.' 
alon^' its southern ed^e, 
the result, prohahlv. ot 
erosion. .\ raised cross, 
carved wiihin a trians^le 
at th(^ top ot the hoard, is 
neatK' done. In the hark 
of a tree standing" just 
above on tlu; ridsj^e ot the 
declivit\- are carved the ini- 
tials ■• 1. K. Co. C. 13. k" whith further identities the orave. 
(See V\<^. I I , Chap. Ik) 

No. 9S. The i^rave of '• Idmer (i. Wood, L"o. ( i. i j;th 
U. S. Infantry," is under a tree thirty paces south of Kiernan's 
(^rave. The insciii)tion is caretulK' car\ed. 

No. 99. "2(1 Lieut. [. A. (■.urne\-, 24 C. S. Infnitry. Killed 
Iul\- ist, i8()8 " Lieut. Ciurney's ^rive is situated on the crest 
of the inner ridi-e, or second bank of the ri\ er under a tree 




Kk; 70 
O'/ v/rv ./ Richard Doivliii^, Sail Jiiun Pliiin. 



122 



/IDavtial Graves 



wliich grows on ihe crest and sj)reads its foliage over the spot. 
The tree is solitary, and with the gra\e forms a picturesque 
view. The inscription is carefully cut on the headboard, and 
the mound is etlged round ahout with large pebbles. The San 
Juan River is near b)-, and adds to the charm of this strikingK' 
beautiful natural scenery at this point (big. 72 K 

Lieut. John A. Gurne\' was born in Hart, Michigan, in 
1S72, and graduated at the United States Military Academy 
at \\ est boint in 1891. near the head of his class. The esteem 
in w hich he was held by his classmates was shown by his choice 

as class president. Among his class- 
mates was Lieut. Joseph S. Augustin, 
Jr., who was Ijorn in New Orleans in 
i(S-4. He had been married less 
than a year when he fell mortalh' 
wounded while leading his heroic 
regiment of black regulars, the 24th 
Inlantrw up the sloi)es of San luan 
ridge. 

The case ot these two \()ung men 
is especially interesting, and gives a 
striking indication of the happy 
changes that have been slowly work- 
ing in the United States toward the 
binding togdher of the North and the South. It had escaped, 
indeed it had scarcely entered into my thoughts, that since the 
close of the war against Rebellion, a large numlu'r of the youth 
of the Southern States had l)een gradualh' introduced by legal 
appointment into the National .Military and Naval Academies, 
and thus into the army and navy. There, under the Stars and 
-Striix's, the)- ha\e l^een nurtured in the love of countr\' and in 







I'lG. 71 

Marker oti Ric/iard Dowling 
Grave. 



J6100&V? 36cn^ nuD Sau 3unn UMaiu ii':: 

tcllowshi]) with their coniradcs tVoni the Norihcrii States, which 
was subsequcntl)- hrouoht to lii^ht l)ythc c'\c-iUs of the S|)anish 
AnuM"ican War. It came as a surprise t<» the people at hir^c 
that some ol the most heroic fiL^ui'^-s in the National service, 
both on land and on sc-a, were the sons ot" .Southern families, the 
descendants ol Confederate \-eterans. who had lou-ht in the 
Civil War of the Si.xties. AmonL; these was Lieut. Au-iistin. 
of New Orleans, who, in the Militar)- Acadenn-, foi-med a strong- 
affection for youii'^ (iurnew of Michij^an. 

I he two men represented the exti'eme South and the 
extreme Xorth. j'hey were "chums" duriiiL; the entii-e coui'se 
ol four \ears at West Point, and that the\- mi-ht not be sejja- 
rated. together enteretl the Twenty fourth Infantry. It has been 
stated that when they went toi^cther to .SantiaL^'o, the\- aL^reed 
with each other tliat if one should fall, the other slvnild break 
the news to the lo\ed ones at home. It was so ordered that 
one shoLiKl not Ije taken and the otiier left. In the charge 
across the battle plain and u]) the heights of .San luan the two 
Iriends were both stricken to death. 1 he blood of Augustin 
trom tile warm sunny South and the blood of (birney from the 
cool breezes ol the far Xorth. mingled together upon the trojji- 
cal soil of Cuba. Ciurne)- lies sleei)ing undera lone tree on the 
crest of the elevated bank just beyond the P)loody IUmkI and 
near the sj)ot where he fell. His gra\e looks ilown upon the 
San juan gliding betwecMi its fringe of tro])ical trees. Lieut. 
Augustin was carried back from the liekl across the San \uAn, 
along the Aguadores Roatl. and so on from K\ Pozo to the Idrst 
Dixision Hospital by the headquarters of (len. Shafter. There 
he dic-d and thei(i he was buried, surrounded b\- a great number 
of his fellow-soldiers of \arious ranks, irost of whom are l)urie(l 
among the " I'nknown." 




Fig. 72 
Crave of Luul. Curney, on ihe crest of the second bank of the San Juan, near Bloody Bend. 



.1Sloo^\: .1Bcu^ au^ San :tiian ipiam i-"' 

Iftliis war has accomplished iiolhiiio- else, il has at least 
\vrouL;ht lor our coiintr\' an iiUcrhleiiuinLj^ ot the various sec- 
tions, Xorlh, South, West and luist in the common service and 
common sacrifice, and, alas, in the common death, ol some ot 
thv. choicest si)irits of the Army and .\a\y, in a common dexo- 
tion to llie honor of our common country and our common lla^'. 
May the hond thus sacredK' sealed in the blood ot our yonn^- 
heroes on the 1 attlefields of Cuba, Puerto Rico and Manila 
nexcr a^aiii be broken ' 

No. loo. Aii unknown <;rave, no mark thereon, is ])lac<«l 
on th(? edoe of tlu- river llat at the foot of the second bank, it 
is beneath the Ijank on which is Lieut. (iurne\'s urax-e. but a 
little to the cast thereof 

\o. loi. '• Uaniel l.oner^an. Co. II, i ;th InfnUry. Kill<'(l 
July 1st, iSgS." d'his L^raxc is situat<-d about one hundred 
pace's east of Lieut, (iurnes's L;ra\e under a loiu- plum tree, 
and twelve paces north from the A^uadores River. A i)hoto 
graphic tMigravinL;' is oi\-en in Chap. 1, fig. i. 

No. I02. Returning to th«' plain a liule to the northeast of 
the g-rave of Richard Dowling, Mr. Rhodes has located the 
grave of V. Roto. Private, Compaiu' A, i;,th I'nited .States 
Infuurw The otLicial list gives the name Lrederick Role 
(apparently). Killed b'ly ist, 1S9S. 

\(). 103. " L. fi. Lewis, Lieut. Co. Ck odi Int. Killed in 
action |ul\- ist, iSgS." The grave: of this Ijright Noung ot'hcer 
is on the north side of the Aguadores Road, a short distance 
beyond the crossing. A growth of splendid trees rises between 
it and the .\guadoi-es Ri\cr close by. troni which came up the 
merry shouts of a compan\- of bathers ot the gth I . .S. \ olun- 
tcers. the onlv sounds that broke the deep silence. A space 
for the 'Tra\"e was cut into the wilderness (^t tropii-al shrubberx'. 



126 



/iDartial Graves 



and loviiiL;- hands h;ul evidently prepared the sepulchre with such 
care as circumstances would permit ; and faithful friendship can 
do much to adorn the sepulchre of a soldier even amidst the 
hurry and the confusion following- a victorious batde. The 
o-rave is now almost embowered by the surrounding plants, the 




Vu 



Grave of 2d Lieut. Louis IL Leivis on the Aguadores, near /Uoody Bend. 



road alone keeping open the view from the southeast, 'i he 
inscription has been punched into a i)iece ot zinc. The mound 
is supported near tlK- base by encircling rows of square bricks, 
but the (;arth extends a little beyond the bricks. The grave is 
on a slight slope and the head is elevated. Rustic stakes are 



JBlooDv? Bcu^ an^ San 5uaii OMaiii 



\2: 



— ' — ~:^ 

I '; ■ 

'Hi.V ■' 



J f^ iV:B ^'nT.j^ Cft L l\"H'^M. 



placed at the i-orncrs, and llicse are siipjjortfd l)y two striiiL^s 
of barbed wire. (bii;. 7,^.1 

Xo. 104. I'nkniiwn American Soldier. ( )ii a sid(^ road 
leadiiiL:' up tlu; slope from tlu; .\L;iiadores Road toward a brick 
\'ard is an unmarked ofrave. 

Xo. 105. ••John Booth, private Co. L. 71st X. \'. \'ols." 
Some distance further east aloiiL; tlui Af^uadores Road and about 
midway i)etu(-{'n tin; i^raves of 
Lieut. Lewis and Col. W'ikotf, 
(jne sees on the soutli side ot 
th(; road the _L;ra\e of |()hn 
l)Ooth. It lies just undc-r the? 
hill slope on th<' llat space or 
Ijottom lainl ot the river road. 
It is a large s(piart: enclosure ot 
stones, most of which are (juite 
white, and several of these of 
i^'oodly size. ( )n one of the 
laro-e stones placed at the head 
is cut the name " L)Ooth," and 
the reo-imental number "71." 
The orave is tlat, with little 
elevation, so tliat there is no 
distinct mound. It is sur- 
rounded by the leaves and ten- 
drils ot a wild \•int^ which lu-re 

festoons the earth and all the shrubbery. L makes a thick 
entano-lement ever\\vhere, and attords a' lodL^ment for hosts of 
mosquitoes that almost prevented one trom takinq^ notes and 
making- sketches. The crrave was thickly covered with this 
vine, which matted the entire surface ami almost hid the smaller 




Sross on the grai'es of'yjolin l^ooth avJ //>/;. 
Frti'cr. 



128 



finartial Graves 



stones in the fence. I had to tear away the vine and its ground 
tendrils in order to trace the outhne of the orrave, which would 
not have been noticed had not the cross caught my eye as we 
drove by. On the standartl of the rough wooden cross is 
inscribed : " May his soul rest in peace. Amen." On the cross 
piece are the name and regiment as above given. (See two 
engravings. Figs. 4, 5. Chap. I.) 










I-IG. 75 

Grave oj U'm. J. McIlTaine. 

No. !o6. I'rivatc W'm. Preger. Co. A. 7 ist N. Y. Vols. 
Killed July i st, 1S9S. Mr. I). H. Rhodes informed me that two 
persons are buried in thct grave of John Booth on the banks of 
the Aguadores, a fact which had escaped my notice. The name 
as above was written on the Ixick of the cross on Booth's grave. 

No. 107. C.XKXowx. — l)eyond the grave of I)O0th and on 
the right hand sich- of the road (S. \\.) there is an unmarked 
grave, placc^d against the vA\:^v. of the; hill, as are the three pre- 
cedintr ones. 



Jl3loo^\■> JHcnC* an^ San 3iian ipiam 



ll!'.» 



f 



r 



No. loS. ••W. j. Mcllvainc. Co. 1). i ,nh I'. S. Int. Killed 
in battle |iily i st, 189S. Mrectcd by iiis sorrow inu; comratles.'-' 
AdvanciiiL^r alonor the Ai^aiadorcs Road toward Sil)one\'. and 
about inidwa)- Ix'tween tlie i,aave of liooth and Prefer and 
that of Col. W'ikoff and on the same side of the roatl is the 
i^rave of \Vm. |ohn Mcllvaint^ It is in a shaded retired sjjot 
at the base of the hill in which a space is cleared oft' for the 
grave. This is surrounded by a barbed 
wire fence strunL;' troni tour stakes, and 
also 1)\' an inner enclosure suspendetl h^oni 
a number of small smooth spool-like stocks 
(bii;. y^]. The cross on the edoe of the 
headboard is raised up by carvin^ and a 
carved scroll below the inscription bears 
the motto: " Recpiiescat in pace" llii;. 
76). A number of cartridges arc inserted 
in the mound without any apparent design 
as to pattern. McIKaine Avas shot through 
the h(;ad while charging over the plain. 
He threw up his hands with the exclama- 
tion, " My God I " and all was over. lie 
was a citizen of Philadelphia. His l)od\- 

1 1.1 1 1 • r »i 1 * I had boar J at the e^ra-.e of 

was brouL-iit hom(! 1)\ his lather, who sent „. , ,, „ • 

■^ - \\ III. I. Mclkaitie. 

a sjx^cial messenger, a former comrade, to 

Santiago. It was interred in Mt. Moriah Cemeter\-. Thiladel- 
phia, with military honors, a funeral escort ha\ing been sent 
from his regiment, the Thirteenth Infantr)-, th( n stationed at 
Governor's Island, in New York. 

No. 109. "Col. Charles A. Wikotf. ii(\ V. .S. Infantry." 
This distinguished officer commanded ihe ;d Brigade, consist- 
ing of the 9th, 13th and 24th Infantry of the i st Division. Gen. 








Fig. 76 



130 



/IDartial Graves 



Kent's of tilt' 5tli Ann\- Corps. He was killed in the Hloody 
Bend on |iil\ i st. iSgS. while forniinL;- his men for the assault 
on San Juan Hill. 1 lis body was carried back alon^- the Agua- 
dores Road and laid bcMieath a tree, whence it was taken by INIaj. 
McCleary. of Gen. Kent's staff, and under his direction was 
buried on the left side of the road near the cross-roads, about 
200 yards from the second crossing of the San Juan River, east 
branch. It was afterwards re-interred underneath two trees, on 

the side of the road diagonally 
opposite the first place of burial 
in the anole of the crossin<j. 
At the original burial a chap- 
lain, whose name has not been 
learned, officiated, Maj. Mc 
Cleary and the luu'ial squad of 
soldiers being present. He 
was buried in his imiform as he 
fell, his body being wrapped in 
a shelter tent. The ])resent 
burial site is a beautiful antl 
sheltered one. A small marker 
is placed at the head of the 
mound with no inscription except his name and the number of 
the regiment in the U. S. Army, of which he was Colonel. A 
large triangular space, including the grave, is enclosed by a 
barbed wire fastened at two points to strong rustic stakes and 
at the; third to a tree. It is supported in part by another tree. 
Xo. 110. Turning back toward San Juan Hill, from the 
grave of Col. W'ikoff, along the Siboney Road toward the Agua- 
dores, one comes to the grave of Christensen Axel, Private, E 
Co. 1 6th U. S. Infantry. It is on the roadside. 




Fk;. 77 

Plan shounnii site of Col. lViko(f' s gravi 

The original burial place is across the road. 



,16loo^\: .iScuD au^ San 3uau iplam 



181 



No. iQi. luiiher along this road goiiiL;' northward is the 
grave of lulwartl J. Ross, 'I^roop (], 6th Cavalry. Killed at San 
jiian, luly ist. 1S9S. Capl. |. WCsi, of Troo]) ( i, writes that 
" While the troop was waiting on the hankot the .\giiadorc:s 
Creek to adwance. Ross was hit in tlie leg l»y a Imllet, and was 
carried a tew yards to the rear under sht^lter ot a hank, and 
soon after dicxl and was buried there, and a headboard put ui)at 
his gra\e." The body 



)Ot 

ol Mr. l\oss was re- 
ni()\-ed 1)\ Iriends to his 
home in Washington. 

Xo. 112. I nknow II. 
Westward ot Ross's 
grave and on the same 
side of the road but 
nearer the bank of the ., .,.^^1 
Aguadores, is an un- \\)/iii 
marked gra\'e, |:)robal)l\' 
of a soldier of the Cav- 
alry Division. 

W^e are now follow- 
ing the line ot march ot 
the Cavalr\- Hixision along the .Siboney Road toward .Santiago, 
hi this section the cavalrymen were massed, lying in the jungle 
underneath the heavy bushes and woodetl growth ot the plain 
between the two branches of the San Juan Ri\-er. To their left 
a i)ortion of the intantry was massed, the remainder being oil 
the southern side of the Aguadores River. 

Xo. 113. Leaving the grave of Cavalryman Ross and tord- 
ing the Aguadores River, we locate the grave of Lewis Reynolds, 
Private, C<^m[)any A, i st Lnited .States X'olunteer Ca\alry. 




I'll). 78 

l/caiUward at Col. W'tkoff" s i^rave. 




■z ^ 



^ 



56loo^\^ 56cu^ an^ San 3uau UMain i-^"^ 

killed |iil\- isl. It is on ihc hank ot" ihc .\L;iia(l<)rcs, a liulc 
norlhcasi ( >!" ihc tnrdin;^-. 

No. 114. ( )n the riyht sidr of die Sihoiicy Road, a litth; 
distance Ijcyond llic crossinL^, is a lar-c niound rontaininL;' di(' 
l)odies of five soldiers. ( )n the rude inark(,T whicli indicates the 
names of the inmates, appears the name ot Chaplain Switl. who 
(■\idcinl\- ofticiatcd at the Imrial of the men, and Idi the rec(jrd 
1)} which their hodies ha\e been identified. Ihc hrst in the 
list is C". r>. Ilrown, Private, Company M. 71st Xiw \ ork 
Inlantrv. 

No. 115. Millard 1". Perkins, wa-oncr Co. I"', ^)th C. S. 
Ca\'alr\'. died Iul\- 2d. 1S9S. 

\o. 116. lames iJoyle. Prixate, .\ Co.. 1st Lnited States 
X'olunteer Caxalry. died July 2d. iSqS. 

No. 117. lames L. l.an-le\-. Sadler, \\ Cn.. oih lnited 
.States Caxalry. died |ul\- 2d, 1 SoS. 

Xo. iiS. John !•". Robinson, Priv.ite, rro()[) P.. 1 st I nitetl 
.States X'olimtcer Caxalry. Died July 2d, iSgS. 

No. I H). I'nknown. Piirlher aloiiu; the road .ind on the 
northern side not far from the upper fork ot the San pian is an 
unmarked grave. 

No. 120. Crossing the .SiPoiu-y Road and adxancin^- alonur 
the bed of a drv water course in the \er\- midst ot the bushy 
plain are lour L:"i';i\'es of men ol" thf loih Cnitcd .Stales Intantry. 
riiev are in a L^roup almost in a line due east trom the i^rave ot 
Lieut. Michie in the pkun bitore .San pian, and just west of 
the laroe orave containin^,^ Numbers i 14-1S. The plain earthen 
mounds are simpl\- mai'ked b\- penciled sticks and th<' records 
are as follows : 

No. i2(\ Ca])tain 'rheoi)hilus W. Morrison. loth I nited 
States Intantry, killeil July ist, 1898. 



134 nriartial Graves 

\(). 12 1. St^rgeant ]\Iichacl O'lh'icn, Compan)- 1), i6th 
United States Infantry, killed July ist, 1898. 

No, 122. Sero-eant loseph M. Haag, Comi:)any V, 1 6th 
U. S. Infantry, kilfed July i st. 189S. 

No. 123. Harvey R. Ross, Private, Company E, i6th 
L'nit(-d .States Infantr)'. killed Jul)- 1st, 1S98. The marker 
bears the name of " Charles " Ross, l)ut there is no such person 
amony the killed of the i6th Inf , and the above, which is on 
the official list, is doubtless correct. 



Chapter VI 



On and Around Kettle Hill 



w 



HAT hallows ground where heroes sleep ? 

'Tis not the sculptured piles you heap ! 
In dews that heavens far distant weep 

Their turf may bloom. 
Or genii twine beneath the deep 
Their coral tomb ; 

But strew his ashes to the wind 

Whose sword or voice has served mankind- 
And is he dead whose glorious mind 

Lifts thine on high ? 
To live in hearts we leave behind 

Is not to die ! 

Is't death to fall for Freedom's right ? 

He's dead alone that lacks her light, 
And murder sullies in Heaven's light 

The sword he draws. 
What can alone ennoble fight ? 

A noble cause ! 

Thomas Campukll. 




On and Around Kettle Hill 

|i 1!^ American troops advanced from thr sea to San- 
tiatro alone the Sibonev or Pozo Road. 1 his haves 
the city at the Cuartel Reina Mercedes, aiul i)assini^ 
the blockhouse called I'Ort C'anosa, where it forks to 
the northeast toward Cane\-, trends east by south, crosses the 
loHL,^ rido;e of San [uan, which it descends, and then winding- 
around the Pond, di\ercres southward and crosses the upper 
or northern branch of the San \\va\\ i\i\(r. Thence it bears 
south, crosses the lower braiich of the San bian, which i> known 
as the Ai^uadores River or Rio Seco, and trendiuL;- southeast, 
followino- the course of the latter stream, pursues its way 
through the lumpy valley to the coast mountains, over which it 
ascends and passes through the vale of Pas Guasimas to Sib- 
oney by the sea. About two miles and a half from Santiago it 
passes El Pozo, on whose height Grimes's battery was stationed 
during the battle of July ist. and further on passes the head- 
quarters of Gen. Shafter and the site of the hirst I )ivision lidd 
Hospital which, during llic battle, was in charge ot Major- 
Surgeon Wood. Near by are many graves and trenches, most 
of whose inmates are unknown. Before the road reaches Sib- 
oney it again crosses running water two or three times. 

Near the })oint where this road descends the San Juan 
heights it forks to the south, and swings around the edge of 
th(^ plain to a fording near the junction ot the San Juan and 



138 /IDartial Graves 

Aguadores, now known as the lUoody Bend. Crossing here, 
it turns eastward and merges into the Aguadores Road for 
several hundred yards until it unites with the short cut or 
Siboney Road above described. Where it cuts across the plain 
it is fringed with high bushes and small trees, and is so worn 
below the level as to quite deserve the name our soldiers gave 
it — "The .Sunken Road." 

The American troops advancing from the camp before 
Sevilla would reverse the course above outlined. Where the 
Siboney road forks and leads to the Bloody I)end, Kent's 
Division diverged into the Aguadores Road. On their left (to 
the south) was a somewhat precipitous elevation, a spur or foot hill 
from the further mountains, which descends to the roadside. 
On the right (north) is a heavy growth of trees and underbrush 
which fringes the Aguadores River only a few yards away. 
Most of the infantry of Kent's I)i\ision pressed along this 
road to the l)loody Bend, but some deployed to the right, fording 
the Aguadores River and occupying the plain in the angle 
between the river forks, which is covered with a dense entangle- 
ment of grass, bushes and wild vines. Here Capt. Morrison, 
Sergeants O'Pirien and Haag and Pri\ate Ross, all ot the Six- 
teenth U. S. Infantry, fell and are buried. 

The Cavalry Division deployed to the right at the forks ol 
the road, and crossing the Aguadores River moved northward 
along the short cut. To the right and left was the tropical 
jungle over which, especially to the northwest, towered the 
bulging shafts and feathered tops of man)' royal palms. 
Before them to the north was the rounded knob of Kettle Hill 
(San luan Hill), rising ([uite precipitously, and looking down 
upon the northern Ijranch of the San juan River, which runs 
close to its base, both alono- the southern and eastern faces. 



On an^ Bl•oun^ Hccttlc iMll 



1 :!;» 



While waitiiiL; alon^' the line ol this road, and (hiring' tlicir 
ad\ance, the ca\ ahAmcn were exposed to the tire ot tlie Span- 
ish troops and to di(; enhla(hn^" fire h'oin the Mockhouse and 




Fig. So 
Jlc-^c to the ioutheas/ of Keltic //i/l, 'where the Cir,\ilrynnn lay. 



140 /IDavttal Graves 

the ride pits and the machine guns on San Juan Ridge (Fort 
San )uan). Their presence and range were made known 
more definitely by the baHoon of the Signal Corps, which was 
sent up from this point. 

The execution done by the enemy is sadly attested by the 
numerous graves which here mark the line of march. With one 
excei)tion, a soldier of the Seventy-first New York Infantry, all 
the graves found on the eastern side of the road are of men 
from the Cavalry Division. The character of the country 
through which the cavalrymen moved as they approached Kettle 
1 lill is represented in the photograph (Fig. 80) which was taken 
from the crest looking eastward. Further to the south, be- 
tween the river forks, the grass is higher and the trees more 
scrubby. 

The graves of those who fell in battle July ist, as far as 
their distribution indicates, show something like the following 
line of assault : The Rough Riders struck Kettle Hill at the 
southeast corner, having advanced along the Siboney Road, 
crossed the San [uan River, and deployed to the right. Their 
ascent of the hill appears to have been a zigzag course along 
the eastern slope to about the middle, where they reached the 
top, and mo\ed across the level surface to the western edge 
overlooking the pond and the San Juan ridge. This is the line 
marked out by the graves of Troopers Norton, Logue and Swet- 
nani at the foot of the hill, of Corporal Hall a little way up the 
slope, and then of Green beyond that, and Hendricks on the 
crest, whik; Trooj)er .Santo lies about the middle of the table- 
like top. 

On the left of the Rough Riders and partly intermingled 
with them, were the Third and First Regular Cavalry, as indi- 
cated by the gra\e (jf Cooley, of the Third, on the western crest, 



On aH^ Broim^ Ikcttlc H.mU m 

and b\- that of Corporal Pixton, of the I'irsl, on the soutlicrn 
edge. The column of the P'irst Cavalry must have stretched 
further to the left down die southern slope and alon-^ the road 
and the level at the southern foot of the hill, where the\- lost 
Privates Raw Cund and Cinder, who are l.uried at thai point, 
presumably where th('\' tell. Indeed, tin: L^raxe ot l'i-i\ale Jacol), 
near the Sunken Road on the IJattle IMain. and that of Maj. 
Force on the crest of San |uan RidL^c. wouKl suggest that 
detached j)arts or even the line of the Idrst Ca\alry may have 
touched diat of the Infantry well towai'd a point in ti-ont ot 
the blockhouse. 

The Ninth and Tenth Caxalry of colored troops were 
aligned with or intermingled with the aboxc, or were in advance 
or in the rear of their columns. 1 his is indicated b\- the posi- 
tions of the gra\es of Col. 1 lamilloii. who commandetl the 
Ninth Regiment, and of Lieut. Smith, of the Teiuh. I'hese are 
both situated at the southeastern loot of the hill, to the west 
and southwest of the graves of the Rough Riders and imme- 
diately beneath the grave of C^»rporal I'ixlon, of tin- l-'irst 
Cavalr)-. It is remarkable thai there are no gra\es oi ealisted 
men from these two regiments in this \ icinit\-. since two ot the 
Ninth antl six of the Tenth are ofticialK' i-eporte^l killed. I have 
not been able to trace the jioinls at whicli they were buried. 
The same fact is mcasureabK' true ot other regiments engaged 
in storming Kettle I till. ( )t" iIk- thirteen men of the First 
Ca\alry killed, 1 know the gra\es of only se\en. ( )t the iwel\-e 
Rough Riders killed only nine graves are know n ( )t the three 
men killed in the Third Regiment the grave ol one is known. 
The four of the Sixth Regiment killed ai)parently fell in the 
road before the charge, for their graves are all there. 

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142 /iDavtial (Braves 

official reports aiul various narratives by eye witnesses and par- 
ticipants, we tlnd that in point of fact the accounts of the charge 
on Kettle Hill substantially corroborate this deduction made 
from the distribution of the martial graves. The hill was cov- 
ered chierty by Rough Riders and \inth Colored Regulars, with 
some of the First Regulars on the southern slope, where the 
hill is most precipitous, and a few men of other commands inter- 
mingled at various points in the charging line. In the confusion 
of the rush many lost their respective companies, and attached 
themselves to the nearest officer, especially if he seemed to be 
one who held his own men in hand and fousj^-ht them well. 

The Tenth Calvary, which lost 50 per cent, of its officers 
in killed and wounded, and the First Cavalry which lost 
severely, especially in men killed, together with the Third and 
Sixth Cavalrynien, swept the southern foot of the hill, and 
charging along the road and over the plain through the pond, 
struck the San Kian Ridgfe to the rioht of the Infantry, and on 

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the left of the Siboney Road. Col. Roosevelt went up Kettle 
11 ill a-horseback until stopped by a wire fence, when he dis- 
mounted and led the charge to the crest a-foot. 

When the blue colored hacienda, temporarily converted 
into a blockhouse, had been seized, and the regular Spaniards 
and guerrillas who he:ld it were dislodged, they fell back to their 
supports on the northern shoulder of the San Juan Ridge, the 
part which immediately faces Kettle Hill and lies north of the 
Siboney Road, b'rom the entrenchments on this height a fire 
was opened upon the American cavalrymen on Kettle Hill. 
.Several large iron kettles, used for boiling sugar, stood well out 
in the middle of the lev'el summit of the knoll, which were still 
in position when I first visited the place in the closing days of 
July. These kettles were used by our men as breastworks, and 



On a^^ Brolln^ lUcttlc illill 143 

from behind ihciii and troin the.' captured building's and other 
points of xantaj^c, iIka opcnctl fire upon the enenu' in th<- 
opposite; trenches and blockh()us(;s in supi)ort ot the Intantr\- of 
I lawkins' Ih'i^'ade, who were now across the i)lain and niountin^" 
the ritlL^e ribl)ed with Spanish rille pits. 

As the L^allant looimcn sti'uck the crest, the horsemen 
ceased hrin^;' i^'st the\- should iniure their friends. Then form- 
ing; in line they cleared the le\el summit, and movetl down the 
western slope, which descends ])\- a rather long- decline to the 
|)lain, and with a wild wliirr and hurrah charged the ridge in 
their immediate IroiU, which had kei)t up a continuous fire upon 
them, lilack and wliite, Rough Riders antl Regulars, in bunchi-s 
and fragmentarN' columns, and in scattering squads, led b\- their 
company otfu-ers, won the Spanish trenches, and chased their 
occupants from the hilltops and around the northern shoulder 
of the riilg(; toward the grove of royal palms. The grave of 
Sergeant McCiartlin, of the Idrst Cavalry, api)ears to mark the 
extreme point which the Americans reached in this direction, a 
squad under Lieut. Berkley, of the First, having advanced that 
far. The Sergeant was killed, but the little group of horsemen 
held the position until it was tmalK' permanentK* occupied by 
the right ot the division. 

Mr. Hamment, who toUowed the arm\' as a war corres|)on- 
dent. was hear this point between the two branches of the San 
juan and describes'^' a burial scene in v.hich he took part. The 
men who were killetl were being biu'ied as decently as circum- 
stances would allow. One instance cited was that of four 
Cubans carrying one ol our soldiers to the rear. I hey had 
borne him from the tiring line to a point where he was free 
tVom immediate dauL-'er. lie was badlv shot, havimjf si.\ or 

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seven hiillci wounds in his IxxK'. Ihc Ciihans asked [he cor- 
respondent it lie hatl any \vatei-. 1 le had some in his cant(.'en, 
and as the\- placed the Htter down on ilie I'oad lie j)iit the nozzle 
of the canteen to the soldier's li|)s. IWit he was Ix-vond the 
help ot mortal. lit had alread) hreallied his last. '1 he pari\- 
took the dead soldier aside, hastil\- cIul; a L;ra\c, and ere tlie\- 
covered him with the earth, as there was no chaplain to admin- 
ister the last rights. Mr. 1 lamnn-nt took it upon himself to say 
devoutly. " I^^arth to earth, ashes to ashes'" coujjled with an 
earnest inward hojie that the hero had ^oiie to me(;t his ( lod as 
a hra\e man should. The Cubans were cpiite impressetl with 
this simple ceremon\-. and at its conclusion started back to the 
line to aid others. The writer adds that he toimd that din-iny 
the first antl second day's h^htino-. the Cubans did i^ood service 
in the aboxc niannei-. Hut one \entures little in conchidini^- 
that the o-rave of the soldier thus buried, if fouml at all. is 
amonij- those marked " I iiknowr.." 



List of Dead and Description of Graves 

Xo. 124. ()li\er 1). .\orton, Troo]) 11, ist X'ohinteer Cav- 
alr\-. On a le\el spot of ground near the foot of the hill is the 
L;rave ot Olixcr H. Norton, who was shot down at tlu- side of 
his brother and of Col. Roosevelt while charL^iiii^- the hill in 
ad\-anc(; ot the line. It is a simple cairn of rocks and tiles 
(Fig-. Si ), with a rude cross at the heatl bearing the inscription : 
"In Memory ot ( ). 15. Norton, Troop W. ist Caw l\ill(Ml in 
batde bil>' i^t., iS(;S.'" Abo\e the cairn, set in the bosom ot" 
the hill, is a tine brick arch embowered in trees, a part of the 
ruined su^ai' works. To the north stand the parallel brick walls 
ot a ruined building-. It would be difhcnh to find burial sites 
more picturescpie than this and that of the other RouL^h Riders 



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who tell ami now sleep on the eastern slope ol the hard-con- 
tested L,n-ound. A hi^h tuft of crrass i^tows at the Lj^rave's head ; 
the space inimediateh' siirroundini^- is otherwist; \ (M-dureh.'ss. 

Xos. 125-126. Mr. Rhodes, subsequent to my \isit, 
determined that two other soldiers, both privates in the l-'irst 
Volunteer Cavalr\-, are buried in the same orave. Their names 
are David Loiaieand [ohn 
\V. Swetnam. both pri- 
vates in Trooj) B, to which 
Norton belonL;'ed. The)- 
"were probabh' amon^" the 
men ot this trooj) who at- 
tached themselves to Col. 
Roosevelt as he led his 
regiment uj) the slope. 

Xo. 1 27. just above 
on the lower slope of the 
hill, and a little to the 
north is the i^rave of Cor- 
poral loel R. Hall, Irooi) 
B. 1st Vol. Cav. V. S. (1mm- 
^2). It is a larg-e mound 
composed of stones and 
tiles intermini^led with the 
earth. It is sliaded by a tree that i^rows on the slope abo\e it. 
To the southwest close by is a brick arch, the oj^enino^ into the 
well of the ruined suorar mill on the eastern face of the hill. 
The inscription is neatl\- cut into a curved tile, which is placed 
at the heatl ami supported f)y a board (I'ii.;'. S2.\K The rrrass 
has overthrown the grave, and the wh -le surroundings unite to 
lorm a picturescjue view. 




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Xo. 128. '• H. C. (ireen, Troop E., ist \'ol. Cavalry." A 
few yards northeast of Hall's grave is the tomb of Private Henry 
C. Green of the Rough Riders ( Mlj". 84). It is a large rectan- 
gular mound, on the slope of the hill, of which the lower end 
has l)een raisc^d, making the surface almost level. P^or this pur- 
pose tiles and stones have been freely used. The inscription is 
cut upon a l)oard. and also on a curved tile laid in one corner 
of the mound (Fig. S;^). 

Xo. 129. " Milo A. Hendricks. Troop |. ist U. S. \'ol. 
Cav." Ascending the hill to the summit on which the distinctly 

marked sites of tents still re- 
main, and much of the debris 
of an abandoned camp, and 
walking a few yards to the 
north, one meets the grave of 
Rough Rider Hendricks, who 
fell July 1st. It is on the edge 
of the eastern slope on which 
are the graves of Hall and 
Green. Xear the head grows 
a small tree which has been 
topped, and the trunk has 
sprouted into a bush)' shelter. 
Low shrubbery has \\(tll over-covered the mounck It is shown 
in the photograph (fig. 84) along with the tomb of H. C. 
Green, and its locality is indicated l)y the human figure touching 
one of the corner posts. The mound is bordered with tiles and 
bricks and is enclosed b\' a wire fence. The name and inscrip- 
tion are scored on a curved tile fastened to the trunk of the 
young tree. 

Xo. 130. WvA. .Santo. Troop [, ist V. S. X'olunteer Ca\- 




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airy. An orderly, detached for duty with Gen. Wood, a mem- 
ber of the RouL^h Riders, informed me that the above-named 
soldier is buried "one hundred feet southeast of the grave of 
Hendricks and ()i)i)()site to it." I could not find this grave, but 
make the insertion here for subsequent investigation. I believe 
it to be the grave " Xo. 62 A," marked "Unknown" by Mr. 
Rhodes in his notes, which is located as above described, and 
which he thinks contains more than one body. 












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Cairn of Corporal IT///. ,7. Pi.xton, southern edge of Kettle Jlill. 



No. 131. Crossing the summit to the ruins on its north- 
eastern edge and descending the declivity one sees an unmarked 
grave on the second knoll beyond the hill. It was designated 
by Mr. Rhodes, and is marked in his list " No. 90." 

No. 132. On the western brow of the hill looking towards 
Santiago, is a grave marked " 1 )aniel D. Cooley, Troop K, 3d 
Cavalry, Killed July ist, ICS98." It is on the edge of the bluff 
directly east of the Pond, and overlooks the plain and the 
oj^posite heiglit of San |uan Ridge. 



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No. 133. CircliiiL;- the edge ot" Kculc Hill well toward the 
southeastern edge, is a grave marked "Corporal \\ . A. I'axlon 
(or Pixton). Troop P.. isl Cavalry. Ki!lc<l in Paulc July i^l. 
189S. Rest in Peace" (Fig. 85). It is near the vxh^c of the 
liill hard 1)\- a footpath that winds along the crest. The graves 
of Lieut. -Col. Hamilton and Lieut. Smith are just l)elo\v, near 
the foot of the hill. The mound is entirely covered with stones. 
and the inscription is on a Poar^l fastened to two ui)right stakes. 
No. 134. Ascending the hill, which is here rather steep. Py 
the pathway that leads over the southeastern slope, an unmarked 
grave- is found on the opposite side of the road. " 1 wonder it 
this may not Pe the grave of the " iroopc^r of th(- oth Cavalry 
so touchingly referred to Py Mr. P.onsall in the excerpt (pioted 
at the close of Chapter II '^ 

No. 135. Turning westward and walking along the road 
toward the pond, one meets the grave of Melvin Kay, Private, 
Company I. Idrst Lniteil .States Cavalry. Killed pily ist. It is 
on the side of the road toward Ketll.- 1 lill. a plain mound with 
a small marker to designate its inmaU'. 

No. 130. L'^t across the road from Kay's grav(- are two 
graves containing men from the same regiment and Irom die 
same company. The nearest to the road is that of Adam ( iuntl. 
Private, 1 Company. I'irst United States Cavalry, who died Ldy 
I St. 1898. The inscription is on a i)lain marker. 

No. 137. Side by side with C.und's grave is that of Roland 
L. Linder, Private. I Compan\-, I'irst Lnited States Cavalry, 
wdio died July ist, 1S9S. The grave is enclosed with barbed 
wire- stretched ujicm stak(_'s. 

No. 138. ( )n the nonh( rn side of the road, under the 
southeastern slojx- of Kettle 1 lill, .ooking toward the .San Juan 
River, are the craves of Lieut. -Col. James M. Hamilton and 







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1st. Lieut. Will. II. .Smith (I'ii;'. S6). Tlu-}- arc in one barbed- 
wire enclosure, ciL^lUcni Icet lon^' by leu k-ct wide .\ mass of 
shrubber\- makes a g'reen partition b(t\\<cn tin." two, and the 
tropical veoetati(Hi runs riot around them. The mounds are 
nested in the l)osom of tht; hill in. a recess worn b\' erosion or 
e.xcavateel b}- man. C"ol. I lamilton's j^rave is bordered by and 
almost covered with stones. The original marker at the head 
has been reinlorc(;d by a tin sheet mounted on a board box-lid, 
into which has been punched the simple inscription. • Lic-ut, 
Col. J. M. Hamilton, 9th l^. .S. Cavalry" (see Chap. II, hi-- S). 
This able and gallant offictn" was in command of the Ninth 
(colored) Regular Cavalry and was killed while leading his 
regiment in the charge which swept Kettle I lill. and carried the 
Cavalry Division forward across pond and plain to the northern 
heights beyond. 

No. 139. " 1st Lieut. W. II. Smith, loth Caxalry. |uly i st, 
1898." Lieut. .Smith's gra\e is not parallel with Col. I lamilton's. 
although in the same enclosure, but faces more to the south- 
east. It is also covered with stones, Init in a less pronounced 
manner. The inscription is placed on the l)ack of the head- 
board, on a tin sheet, and is pimched in apparentU' with a nail. 
The artificer miscalculated his space, and the name is in part 
doubled around upon the side of the mounting board. The 
San juan winds between its hedgelike banks but a li tie distance 
away, and between it and the grave is a well-beaten trail to the 
river. 

The San Juan Soldiers' Cemetery 

On the river level, just at the southwestern loot ot Kettle 
Hill, is an enclosed cemetery which contains twenty gra\ cs. It 
shows great care in decently interring ;he bodies ol the soldiers 
therein, and api)roaches more nearly the ideal of a held ceme- 




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tci')' than an\- asscnihlaL^c ot graxcs on Cuban halllctickls. 
The fence is stronL;' and secure ; the graves are all marked but 
one. Some ol them, as may be seen by the \i(nvs, ha\r been 
decoratetl with a loving- sentiment which shows how strong is 
the bond of soldierly comradeshij). Whoever was the insj)iring 
sjiir-t in the j)re|)aration ot" this cemetery, deserve high credit. 
Vhr ciulosurc is drawn almost east and west, within a recess ol 
the hill, which rises aboxe it on lh(* north. .Southward is a well- 
beaten road or militarx' trail which leads to and crosses the 
northern branch ot the .San juan, which is a tew rods distant 
and (lowing eastward <ind 
northerU' curves aroinid the 
foot of the hill. A large 
tree stands a few yards east 
ot the enclosure and casts 
its shadow upon the end 
ne.xt to it. ( )f the graves 
in the cemetery thirteen are 
of men of the 9th Massa- 
chusetts X'olunteers ; lour of 
the 20th U. S. hi Ian try : two 
of the loth Cavalr\-. and one unmarked. As far as the 
markings show only Lieut. .Shipp, of the loth Ca\alry, serving 
on (len. Wood's staff, died in battle. The list v>f inscrii)tions 
tollows, tVom which and the chart, l-'ig. SS. the burial places 
of the soldiers describ;ed can be located u\)nu the engra\ed 
photographs. 

No. 141. There is no inscription upon this gra\e. but 
Lieut. R(?eves identifies it as ajii^arently that of 1st Sergt. 
Walker Kalp. Co. AL, oth Massachusetts. 




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Ko. 142. "Walter (lilniiin, CC l'. c^lh Mass. \«>1. Int. 
Died Alio-. 1st, 1898." 

No. 144. "Hospital Steward 11. 1\. iM-ciiicr. c^th .Mass. 
U. S. \'. Died Alio-. 18, i8g8." 

No. 145. '• Trivatc William .\danis, Cn. F. 2r)th \' . S. inf. 
Died Aui^-. 8th. 1808." 

No. ]4(). " I'rivate A. D. Loiidw Co. 1'". (20th) l". .S int". 
Died Aul;-. 12th, 1898." 

No. 147. "Private ]. M. MiXainara, Co. K. (^th Mass. 
\'()1. Inf. Au-c 21 years. Died Aiii.^^ i), 1808." 

No. 148. "In Memory of Pri. J. D. .Moriarity. Died An-. 
20, 1898. R. I. P. Co. E. gth Mass." 

No. 149. "I. II. S. Private M. I". O'Malley. Di<-d .\u-. 
20, T898. R. I. P. Co. K. oth Mass.'" 

No. 150. "Private Perry I''.. Cordon, Co. C. 20th I . S. 
Inf. Died Au^". 31st. 1898." 

No. 151. The vacant grave f)f Major Patrick J. C.rady. (;lh 
Mass. \'ols. removed to the I'. -S. 1 le died July ;,olh. 1S98. 

No. 152. "Henry .Sullivan Pvt. Co. C. 9th Mass. \'ol. 
Died Jidy 2;,d, 1898. Age 2O years. Santiago de Cul.a." 

No. 15;,. "Geo. Preston, Shot July 2;,. 18c, 8. Troo]) D. 
loth Cavalry r. S." llis name is not on m\ copy ot oUici.il 
list. 

No. 154. " Pri\ate Wm. Saunders, Co. P). gth Mass. \ ol. 
W. I. B. He remembered the J/a/;/i\ No. ;.2;,g."" I have no 
clue to the letters and numliers on this inscription, the onl\- one 
I saw which exhihits the slightest trace of the national indigna- 
tion expressed in the welPknown motto thereon quoted. 

No. 155. •' ist Lieutenant William K. SW\\)\}. loth Cavalry. 
Killed July ist, 1898." Lieut. Shipp was on the Staff of (ien. 
Wood, commanding the Seconal Caxalry P.rigade. 




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No. 156. " Private M. |. Desnioiid, lOinijain' I., (ah Massa- 
chusetts Voluntc'CM- Infantry. Uicd .\iimist slh, 1S9S. A^e, 
43 years." 

No. 157. I iimarkcd L;ra\(' ot I iiknown .\iiicri(."aii Soldier. 

No. 158. Vacant grave of Major Michael J. ()"Connc:r, 9th 
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, who died Aul;. 6th, iSgS. 
His body was removed to the I nited .States. 

No. 159. " R. I. P. l'rivat(! R. Mellin, C"()nii)an\- 1, <;lh 
Massachusetts X'nlunteer Infantry. Died .\uL;ust jlh, 1S9S." 

Now and then an incident occurs which shows that sonu- ot 
the cavalrymen wounded or killed in the jungle between the rixcr 
forks were never found by comrades and were never buried. .\ 
frientl who visited the battlefields in March ( ICS99, informed me 
that one of his party who had been exploring this section a horse- 
back discovered a skeleton which, judging from scant iragments 
of the uniform, was that of an American soldier. Mr. Lewis 
appears to have had a like experience, which he has graphi- 
calh' described.'^' 

.A brown man, lithe, sturdy, antl clad only in a pair of 
tattered overalls, was slashing awa\- with his machete' al a jungle 
of wire grass confronting him. .SuddenK' hv. stopped and ga/ed 
in consternation at an ol)ject huddled in a tangle ot weeds. it 
was the skeleton of a man, the bones bleached to a grayish hue. 
A short distance from the skull was a stained camj)aign hat 
with rusted swords jMuned to the front. Over the swords 
was a fragment of the figure " i,'" indicating that ihe lallen 
soldier belonged either to the h'irsl Regular Ca\alry or to the 
Rough Riders. Pieces of tattered brown khaki cloth were 
scattered about, and near one of the fc:et was a battered cantet-n. 

The Cuban gave a shout, and presently another man. 

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160 /iDartial Graves 

evidently a farm laborer, came pushing and cutting- his way 
through the jungle. He. too, paused aghast, but only for a 
moment : then he laughed grimly, and pointing downward said : 
" It is an Americano, juan. He was a soldier in the great 
fight. There were man\' of them, and they dropped all around 
like ag"a\e leaves in a strong wind I remember that day ver)' 
well. It was just h\e months ago, and I had been in the Cuban 
army almost a year. It was just about here — no, a little further 
on where the trail di\ides, 1 think — that we had the first battle. 
Madre de Dios ! It rained bullets that hour. The Americanos 
fought like tigers, and they laughed and joketl as if it was a 
fiesta, l^r-r-r ! In a few minutes the grass and the weeds and 
some ot the bushes were fiat as if beaten down with the 
machete. And there were bodies and blood and guns and fine 
clothing scattered all about. For Dios. that was only the other 
day — less than a half year — and now look at it !'' 



Chapter VI 



The Firinir Line Around Cane\' 



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Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, 
There was lack of woman's nursing, there 

was dearth of woman's tears, 
Ikit a comrade stood beside him, while his 

life-blood ebb'd away, 
And bent, with pitying glances, to hear what 

he might say. 
The dying soldier falter'd as he took that 

comrade's hand. 
And he said, " I never more shall see my 

own, my native land; 
Take a message and :< token to some dis- 
tant friends of mine. 
For I was born at Bingen — at Bingen on 

the Rhine. 

"Tell my brothers and companions, when 

they meet and crowd around 
To hear my mournftil story in the pleasant 

vine\ard ground, 
That we fought the battle bravely, and 

when the day was done 
Full many a corpse lay ghastly pale beneath 

the setting sun. 
And 'midst the dead and dying were some 

grown old in wars, 
The death-wound on their gallant breasts, 

the last of many scars ; 
But some were young, and suddenly beheld 

life's morn decline, 
And one had come from Bingen; fair TMngen 

on the Rhine. 

CiiARi OTTE Norton. 



The Firing Line Around Caney 




11-^ haltK: of Caney was toiiL^ht by the Second Divis- 
ion of th ; I'ifth Army Cori^s, comminded by Major- 
(icncral l.awlon. The liriiL^ades of his division were 
as follows: Tlu' l-'irst ilrlL^adc, '.mdrr (ien. Chaffee, 
consisted of the Twelfth, Sexenth and Sexcnleenth United 
States Infantry. 1 he Second Brigade, Cen. Ludlow, was com- 
posed of the Eighth and Twent\-second I'nited .States infantry 
and the Second Massachusetts \'olunteers. The Third P)rigade 
was composed of the h\)urth and Twenty-fifth I'nited States 
Infantry under Col. Miles. 'I'he unattached brigade- ot Cen. 
Bates arrived on the field iust in time to join in the tmal 
assault. 

On the clay preceding the battles of |iily rst, (]vl^. baw- 
ton's division occupied the e.xtreme right of the .\merican line, 
and was encamped on a dr)'. sandy plateau in tin- neighborhood 
of Se villa, a plantation marked 1)\ a Spanish blockhouse. The 
troops lay on both sides ot the road leading towartls .Santiago. 
Lawton's U-ft touched th(! right of (ien. W header's cavalry 
di\ision, which extended eastward tor about half a mile to 
the right of ( ien. Kent's tiivision. whicli included also Lieut. 
Parker's four Catling guns together with tour batteries of light 
artillery, composed of four guns each. 

* Apparently the jjlan of attack was to swing tln^ army 
around to the northwest of .Santiago, and occupy th<' toothills 




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Zbc Jfivtiui Xmc iUouu^ Cauc\? !<>"» 

of ihc Sierra Mattstra aiul the Cohn- Mcniiuaiiis. ihus cutliiiL; 
olT the city from all re-enforcements and sui)i)lies 1)\- the roads 
and rail\va\- leadin- into the interior, whih.- th(^ lleet. nnder 
l\ear Achniral Sampson, prevented approach Iroin the sea. In 
this nio\enient l.awton was to occupy the ri^ht, marchinL;' to 
the north and then \v(;sr. " L;()bl']inL;' up " <n route the little town 
of Cane\- with its small force of live hundred and forty (hlcnd- 
ers. In the meantime the cavalr\ di\ision in the centre antl 
Kent's division on th(; l<;ft were to move torwartl toward 
the fortified San Juan Hills, while Gen. Duffield. with his Michi- 
L^an volunteers, made a demonstration against AL^uadores on 
the seaside, to the southeast of Santia_ij^o. It was, ot course, 
intended that the moxement of Gen. Duffield should deceive 
the enem\- as to the actual point of attack, ami that (ien. Law- 
ton's division, having;- routed the enem\- from Caney, should 
join fr(jm the northwest in the common investment ol the 
Spanish defences. An attack on San Juan Heights was ajipar- 
ently not included in the \)hin of that da\'s operations. 

In accordance with this phm (ien. l.awton started die .Sec- 
ond Division early on the morning of July i st. lie took with 
him a company of Cubans to act as scouts, the hulk ot ( le-n. 
Ciarcia's army having been sent into the hills to the northwest 
to retard or prevent the approach of Gen. Lscario's ct)lumn 
which was marching to re-enforce the Spaniards in .Santiago 
Citw It would seem that it had not occurred to the .\meritan 
chieftains that tk,e opposition at Caney would be serious. .\s it 
turned out, the little band of Spaniards under Gen. \ ara del 
R.ey matle ( ne of the most remarkal)le defences in military 
records, and succeeded in holdinj. back an entire division ot 
.American regulars who, without unchn- \anity, ma\- be 
reo-arded as amc^ng the best trooi)s in the world, trom an earl\- 




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Z\K jrinuii line Bvoun^ Cancv* i'" 

hour in the mornin*; iiiuil hah-pasl three; or four o'clock ni the 
afternoon. 

The L^allant Spanish commander and thf jj^reater portion ol 
his soldiers were killed or wounded, and they succeeded in kill- 
ing or woundino- a number of their foes ecjual to their entire 
force, and in preventin^• Lawton's division h-oiii takm- any part 
in the battle of San juan. It is no wonder that this act com- 
manded the admiration of the American soldiers, and produced 
an endre revolution in their feelinos as to the soldieriy qualities 
of their enemies. Thus, when in due time the Spanish authori 
ties wished to convt^y the remains of ( ien. 1 )el Key to his native 
land, the military escort was a battalion of the I'iith I nited 
States Regular Infantry, who accompanied the remains, with all 
the honors of war. to the landing })lace in .Santiago. 

The road fro n Sevilla t) Caney runs northwartl from the 
main road from Siboney to El Pozo and Santiago, and keeping 
close to the foot hills enters an open highway al)out a mile irom 
the village. Caney lies in the northeastern angle of the lumi)y 
upland valley which has heretofore been described. It is (piite 
out of the route which the- army would naturally have taken in 
its direct advance upon .Santiago. One who stands b>- the 
ruined stone fort on IT \'iso height and notes the situation, can 
hardly refrain from thinking that the- attack on Cane\ was 
needless. One or two regiments i)laced in the open to the 
northwest and southwest of the town, would have completely 
cut off the five hundred men in and around the place from any 
connection with their main army and base of supplies before 
Santiago. Had (ien. Wara del Rey ventured a sorUe. the result 
of a battle in the oi)en would have given at least equal chances 
for an ecjual number of American soldiers to defeat the Si)an- 
iards. b^rom almost any standi)oint the great loss of life and 





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limb which resulted tVoin the attack iijx)!! Caiiey seems a (|ues- 
tionable sacrifice. Moreover, had a IjriL^ade been Iclt to watch 
Cane\'. while the bulk of Lawton's division pushetl on the road 
to Santiago (a fairly good one as compared with the Sibuney 
trail), and struck the northern flank of the Spanish defences at 
San luan early in the morninor, there would have l^een no long 
waiting under lire at the liloody I)end and the tongue ot land 
Ix'vond it, and there would have been a diflerent story to tell ot 
the losses of that day. It is doubtful if the .Spaniards would 
have attempted or could have made a serious stand at San Juan 
widi Lawton assailing their right, and in that case they must 
have fallen back to thc-ir inner defences. 

The valley surrounding the village is broken by a number 
of isolated knolls and ridges sent out from the foot hills ot the 
Sierra Maestra range, which encompasses the town on the east 
and north. A short tlistance from the village on the southeast 
there rises, about a hundred feet high, a conical hill known as 
Id \'iso. This is crowned by an antiquated stone fort which 
tormcd the central point of the Spanish defences. The slopes 
of the hills approaching it were protected by ritle pits and by 
wire entanglements, 'bhe latter were placed at \arious points 
throughout the plain and at all approaches to the village. \\\\\v 
pits were dug ui)on the adjacent heights and the town itself was 
a fortified camj). The fronts of the porches ot houses around 
the plaza and elsewhere were built up with rock and cobble 
stones breast high, and the recess left by the projecting tower 
of the old Church on the northeast of the pla/.a was treated in 
the same manner, thus converting the sanctuary into a military 
fortress. On th(i north, west and soi thwest were several block- 
houses which were also centres of detensi\e works and were 
connected by trenches and runways. In addition to this. s(piares 



17n 



nnartial Graves 



and caps of sheet-tin and zinc were put up at various points 
where an approachino- enemy would be Hkely to come into view 
along the several roads leading into the town, thus marking the 
range for the commanding officers, and enabling them accu- 
rateh- and with fatal effect to direct the fire of their troops. 




Wl 



I'lG. 94 
A/zwr/tiin ftring Uiu\ coii/iiina/ioii of tvVtc Fig. gj. 

Oil the whole it must be allowed that, as against an attack 
()[ infantry only, the Spaniards showed great skill in the arrange- 
ment of their defensive works. But it may be said with equal 
certainty that thc-se could not have withstood for an hour the 
well directed fire of an adequate artillery attack. An old 



Zbc jfivinii Xinc Bvoim^ Cancv i"i 

Spanish soldier who look \ydvi in ihc chiy"s tiL;iuii\L;', cxprt-ssc-tl 
to thi; \vrii< r ilic astonislimcnt that was fell amoiiL:- Spanish 
ofhcers aiul men thai ihc Ann ricai^s wcrr willinL^- to sacrihce 
their hves In- a threct assank u[)on the Spanish works while, as 
the soldier expresseil it, "they (the Americans) could have 
routed us out with llieir arliller\- like a llock ot |)arlritlL;es." 
The works wcm utterly untenaMe by any other torni ot attack 
than that whicl the Americans so oMi-in^K' ottered to the 
L;allant men who had skillhilly and thoronL;hl\' prepared tor the 
same. 

Aljout a mile and a (piartcr (2400 yards) trom Cane\- to 
the southwest. Captain AlKii Capron's hatter)- had been 
stationed on one of the toot hills of the mountains on the nii^ht 
of )une 30th, haxinL:' mo\ed out with (ien. Chaffee's brigade at 
three p. m. AsearKas live o'clock on tlie morninL^- ot jul\- i st 
Chaffee began his advance tVom the night's bi\-ouac on a knoll 
a mile and a half southeast of the village. Th<' .Seventh Regi- 
ment Regulars swung around the east following a trail known 
as the Rode (or 1-^1 Rodeo) and attacked from the northeast. 
The .Seventeenth Regiment was to pass l^eyond the Seventli 
and by a wider sweep ai)i)roach the town trom tin; northwest. 
\n the meanwhiU' the Tweltth Regiment was to moxc westward 
and engage; the enemy, taking i)osition on the ridges and 
knolls in the valle)- eastward of the .Stone bort. 

The severe losses sustained b\- this brigade in the i)osiii()ns 
aliove outlined are sutViciently iiulicated b\- the graves that mark 
the line of their ad\ance. In the field northwest of the height 
of Alto Coronal, which commands the stone fort and the town, 
forty-three graves of men of the Twf Ifth. .Seventh and Seven- 
teenth regiments lie side by sitle in what is still known among 
the inhabitants of Canev as "the American cemetery." Grn. 




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Ubc jrivnui Xinc Bl•oull^ Caucv iT-'J 

Ludlow's brigade <>n ihc Icti ol the dixisioii had taken position 
between the viUage and Santiago : and across the Sanii;igo 
Road the TwtMny-second hitanlr\- had won a jiosition on a hill 
that commanded the road Irom Caney towards Santiago. COl. 
Miles's brigatle (the b'ourth and rwentx-fifth bilantryi was on 
the southern line ot circunnallation, whither it had been sum 
moned h'om its reser\'e position at tlie 1 )iieureau mansion lo 
support Ludlow's attack on the south side of the town. 

Capt. Capron's battery began firing about halt-|)ast sexcn 
o'clock in tlie nK.rning, but tor some reason ceased until later 
in the daw about i ^o p. m., when it once more began to l'la\' 
U])on the lort and succeetled in breaking greatgajjsin the stone 
work. About 3 p. m. the Twelfth Infantr\- led the charge uj) 
the eastern sloi)e of the hill through the wire entangltMiients. 
o\(r I'llle i)its, and planted the American llag up<'n the stone 
fori. Ihe first person to enter tlu! tort according to Capt. 
Arthur Lee, the P)ritish military attache, was [ames Creelman. 
a war correspondent, who was woimded in an efiort to seize the 
Spanish l]ag. Another correspondent. Casj)ar Whitney, was 
not tar behind Mr. Creelman. 

Ihe location ot the gra\es on the batthtield surrounding 
Cane\- indicat(,'s with sul)stantial accuracy tin- line ol attack by 
the various regiments ot the Secontl I)i\ision ot tlie bitth Arnu" 
Corps. Ihe lu'st to appear on the route ot Chaltees brigade 
whiih led the advance ot the di\-i>ion arc those ot !\\an, ot die 
17th Regiment, and " .Mc K", which ar»- located a half a mile 
or more eastward trom Lane\'. (.Sec Map. I'ig 07, 203-204.) 
The next gra\-e is that of r.ratten, of the 12th (No. 202). 
which is on the Rode, about eight hundred x.u'ds east ot 
the village. Then tollow. a cou|)le ot hundred \ards nearer 
Canev. the ijraN-es of I.ieut. Churchiran. of the 12th. and of 



Lhc jru'iiiii Xinc iU•olnl^ Canc\? i""' 

Corporal Aver and l'ri\aic KcrriL^an, (»l ihc 7th iXos. IQ9-201). 
Still tiirthcr aloiiL: llic I'oad, alioiil one hiiiidrcd and fillx' yartls 
from Idcut. Churchman's wra\c, and on the other side ol the 
little stream that here runs down h'om the Sierra, is the L;ra\"e 
of Natlianicl Isler. of the 7th keo-iment ; and then a little 
bexond this to the' north is the Amcriean cemet<-r\ with its forty- 
three graves of soldiers all from ihc three rcL^imeiUs ot ( ien. 
Chaffee's command. Thus the monunu ntal record of martial 
Q-raves indicates that the line ot acKance of this bri^'ade was 
alon^- an arc JDeoinnin^- on the southeast of the: line of circum- 
\allation, and sweeping- around the eastern circumference to a 
point in the northeast. 

Passim^ to the southwarel ot the stone fort one conies ujion 
the grave ot Lieut. McCorkle (see Maj), 210-217) and se\en 
men of the 25th Infantrw 'Idle position is nearU south of the 
stone tort. \orlhwestwardl\- from this group ot the 25111 
Infantry are ti\e graves of the 4th Regulars (.\os. '20^-20()) on 
a line almost east of the stone fort ; and to the southeast, a 
couple ot hundrexl yards, is the gra\c of .Sergeant Kirbx" (No. 
218), also of the I'Ourih. Col. MiK-s's ;^d Urigade is thus li-acecl 
by the record ot tlie graxcs in its attack tVoni the south an<l 
southwest ot El \ iso. 

.Still further south of the graws of the 4th and 251!! Intaiitr\-, 
and about a mile ti'om Caiiey, is a grouj) ot mounds containing 
a numljerof men of the 2d Massachusetts, and one or more, 
perhaps, of the 22d United .States Infantry ( Xos. 2i9-22g). 
Crossing the Santiago Road from this point and moving north- 
ward is found a grouj) of three gra\-es. of which one at least. 
Private .Sutler, and perhaps the others are of the 22(1 Infantry 
(Nos. 230-2^2). Northwest ot this grou[). in a line almost due 
west of the Stone bOrt and soutliwestwardl\- from Cane\'. just 




BLOCK H0U5ES 

(A) FT. RIO 

(B) FZ CEMENTARIO 
iC)FTYZqUIERDO 
(DJFTMTADERO 
t) FT ASIA 



Map shoK'iiv^ approxiin , 



Fk;. 97 

6'.V tltc local ion of gri\ 



,n thf firing /in,' around Caney. 



176 



XTbe Jfirino Xinc Broun^ Cancv 



under the shadow of a orove of cocoaiiul trees, is a lai'o-e 
mound containing- seven men of the 2 2(1 and Sih Reo^ular 
Infantry (Xos. 233-240) Thus, we ha\c located ])\' the burial 
sites the line of movement and attack of Gen. Ludlow's l)riL;ade 
as being- on the extreme south, and s\vii-iging- around to the 
southwest and west of the Stone h\)rt. This distribution of the 
martial graves of the slain would indicate that the American 
In-ing line was drawn ciround Cane\- in the form of a \ast horse- 
shoe, with jjerhaps a narrow 
opening towards the n-iountains 
on the northwest, and a consider- 
able gap on the southwest. 

It ma)' interest readers who 
are disposed to study the value 
(){ such records as this book con- 
tains for detern-iining the actual 
movements ot tht; various organi- 
zations engaged in the battle of 
Caney, to compare the above 
statement, made from n-i)- records 
of graves lound upon the held, 
with the several reports of the 
commanding officers of Lawton's division. I \-enture to rej)ro- 
duce (Fig. 98) a map which shows the position of the \arioiis 
brigades as they are given by Lieut. -Col. Miley.'-- It will 
be seen that the monumental record as al)ove established 
corresponds with the written reports and with this semi-official 
chart. Thus, indubitable evidence is presented of the accuracy 
of accc^unts gi\cn by commanding officers of the movements 
of their troops, and one is able to notice with a reasonable 

* John D. Miley, " In Culji with Sliafter." 
12 




Ik;. 9.S 
Aiiuriian line of in-'cstiiicnl arounu 
CiUicv. 



Zbc Jftriiui Xiuc Bl•olm^ Caucv 17;» 

decree of ccrtaiiU}- 1))' ihc ])i'()i)()riii»n;ilc losses, iIk; active j)arts 
taken l)y the several bri^^ades and regiments. 

The position of Gen. Rates in Col. Miley's map is shown 
as closin^if up a i^ap in the firing- line; to the southeast of the 
stone fort on I'd \'iso, thus eompletint^- the circle of inxcslmeiu. 
This hrii^ade was composc^d of the Ihii'd and I'wi ntleih In ie<l 
States Infantry. When I first observed that Miley had located 
it in the above position I was disposed to think it an error. Hut 
on lookino" up the facts I found the explanation. Gen. Hates 
and his brigade had been assij^ned todul\-al .Sibonex- and aloiiL;' 
the adjacent shore to i)rotect the landing- of supplies and ammu- 
nition. He was ordered up to the neiL^diborhood of Shaffer's 
headquarters, but not in time to take part in the forward move- 
ments either ui)()n Cane)' or the San |iian hills. When the 
unexpected resistance mc;t 1)\- Gen. Lawton was reported to 
Gen. Shafter, he at once forwarded Bates" Brigade to reinforce 
Lawton He appears to have arrived upon the held about 
2.45 p. m., just before the final charge w^as ordered. The part 
he took in the action is lacking in details in the- piiblishetl 
accounts, and most of the war-books fail e\cn to mention his 
j:>resence. 

'1 here is just one item in the mortuarx' records of tlu- battle- 
field, however, which shows that his brigade was thei'e and in 
about the position indicated by Col. Milew Among the soldiers 
buried in a large trench about a mile south of the Stone lort is 
the name of Albert Jindra. Third Cnited .States Infantry (which 
was in Bates' Brigade), who appears on the official re])ort as 
ha\ing died July 2d. 1S9S. As he was buried on the fiekl with 
those wdio iell In action, it seems probable that he received a 
mortal wound while in battle, although, of course, it may be that 
he died from other causes after the fii-ht. At all events, the 



Zbc jriiiiiii Xtuc Broun^ Caiicv 



\s\ 



place of intcniuMU (jiiile accords with .Milc\'s statcincnt. as it is 
not far from the position which the left of Ikitcs' lirii^ade occuijied. 

M)- \isit to Cane)' was unfortunately marred by rain, so 
that the photoL^raphcr who accompanifd me with a held camera 
was much hampered in .L^cttin^ \iews. Those obtained in the 
intervals between the showers were marred b\' the mist in th(.' 
air. The stone fortress of Caney on Kl 
\'iso is seated upon an isolated valle\', 
L;irt al)out on the southern, eastern and 
northern sides by mountain ran^'es and 
isolated spurs. It is commanded on the 
north by a height known as Alto Coro- 
nal, trom which the view has been taken. 
Durino" the assault upon the fortress the- 
place was gradually invested and at- 
tacked from all points. Nearly the 
entire hrintj line as seen from El \'iso at -^^4:^l^it> . ilfe 
the Stone Vovi and from .\lto Coronal. '^^'*<:-l' 

is shown in the series oi photographic 

cuts taken under m)' direction by a stick markers at the graves of 
Spanish-Cuban photographer. 

The rain not onK' marretl the viev/s, 
but made the search after graves unusualK ditticult. \\ e were 
compelled to march the entire line of circumvalh tion trudgmg 
through the rain, wading in mud, and wet by drippings trom the 
rank vegetation. Fortimately. we received through the courtesy 
of the \illage Alcalde two local guides who were ot great 
service in directing us to the sleeping jjlaces ot oiu' heroes. 

On the northeast of the village at the distance of about 
one-fourth of a mile, just over the slope of the commanding 
height Alto Coronal, is what m.iy be called and is called by the 




Fig. ioi 



soldiers in American Ceine- 

Iciv, Caney. 



Z\K Jfirinii Xiuc Ilvouu^ Cai\c\? i^'J 

villagers the American C"cincl(T\ • II lies to the cast ol tlic 
road, and on die mai;L;in ol a garden ot melons, whose rank 
vines luid o\ erspread the surface and were scndinij;- out their 
tendrils ami were spreading- their leaves toward and even over 
th(^ heads of the oraves. The mounds lace west ; there an; 
forty-three in all, the first two, headinqr the column toward the 
south, being the gra\e of 2d Lieut. Thomas A. W'ansboro and 
ist Lieut. Walter I\L Dickinson (Fig. 100). These are the only 
two in the; group that are marked with names. The others are 
laid side 1)\- side in a long row with two sticks tlirust into th<- 
head (Lig. loi). ( )n one of these two sticks is penciled a 
number corresponding with its position in the line. Ihus, 
counting Lieut. Wansboro's gra\e as No. i and Lieut. Dickin- 
son's No. 2, the; next gra\'e has on the second and smaller 
stick the number " 3 " (iMg. loi ). So on throughout the entire 
series. The two sticks are placed at the foot of ever\ mound, 
at least at the points opposite the heads of the officers' graves. 
Perhai)s the officers were l)uried with lh<-ir heads toward the 
garden, and the men with heatls towanl the road. ( )r a mistake 
ma\- have been made 1)\ those who marked the graves or set 
up the head-sticks. This orderl\- numbering suggestetl that 
some one had made a systematic record of the interred soldiers, 
ami had pkued the numbers on the grax'es to correspond with 
numbers recorded, and thus raised the hop(.' that the unnamed 
gra\ es might be identilied. 

Ne.\t the grave of Lieut. Dickinson, which is the sc;cond in 
the row. is erected a finger-board or post se\en or eight feet 
high, on which is cut " 12 Inf." anil in the corner ot the board 
the hgure " 9." Opposite No. 25 of the series is another simi- 
lar post on which is inscribed "21 Div 3d I^rig. 7th Int." 1 
inferred that the graves included between the tu'st post and the 



1S4 /IDaitial Graves 

second contain soldiers of the i2di Infantry U. S. Army, while 
those between the second post and the end contain men of the 
7th V. S. Infantry. However, an examination of the official 
report of the soldiers killed and buried at this point did not sup- 
port the inference. On Captain Howell's list twent)--three 
names of enlisted men from the yth Regiment follow the name 
of Lieut. Dickinson which, including- Lieut. W'ansboro, make 
twenty-four froni that regiment. Seven names of the same 
regiment follow, but not in consecutive order, being intermin- 
gled with six names of the 12th Infantry and five of the 17th. 
Officers and men, the cemetery includes thirty-one of the 7th 
Regular Infantry, six of the 12th and six of the 17th. At least 
three others of the 7th were killed, probably before the column 
reached the Alto Coronal, making thirty-three, an enormous 
death rate for the number of men engaged. 

Xo. 155. The first grave of the series is that of 2d Lieut. 
Thomas A. W^ansboro, of the 7th Infantry, who was killed in 
action Jul)' i st. The mound is bordered somewhat irregularly 
with stones, and a rude cross at the head bears the inscription 
on the inner face of the cross-piece (Fig. 103). The foot of the 
grave, as probably of all the others, is toward the thickly hedged 
bank of the road from which it is separated by about 18 inches. 
The thick foliage overhangs the heads of all the graves. The 
following tribute was paid by a British officer. Capt. Arthur H. 
Lee, to this gallant young soldier : 

" Close in front of me, a slight and boyish lieutenant com- 
pelled my attention by his persistent and reckless gallantry. 
Whenever a man was hit Ik; would dart to his assistance regard- 
less of the fire his exposure inevitably drew. Suddenly he 
sprang to his feet gazing intently into the village ; but what he 
saw we never knew, for he was instantly shot through the heart 



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1.^.') 




and U:\\ over hackward clulchiiv^- at the air. I lollowcd t lie men 
who carried him to the road and asked them his name. 

'••.Seconil Lieutenant W'ansboro, sir. of the- .Se\c:nth 
Infantry, and \()U will never see his better, lie foui^dit like a 
little ti^er.' 

"A few eoii\iilsi\e oasj)s. and the poor l>o\' was dead, and 
as we laid him in a shady spot by the side ot the road, the .Ser- 
i^eant re\ erently drew a handkerchief over his face and said : 

" ' Goodd)ye. Lieutenant, you were a bra\e little officer, and 
\'ou dit;d like a true soldi(-r.' " '•" 

\o. 150. The next L;ra\(' is inscribed: "Lieut. W . ^L 
Dickinson, 17th Infantry, killed in action. July ist, 1S9S." 
Lieut. Dickinson's 
o-rave is bordered 
with larL;c bricks, set 
on edL;e. A single 
brick is laid length- 
wise near the toot. 
The head is marked 
by a marble stone 
bearing' the above in- 
scription, placed b)' relatives or friends. Two small coleus 
plants are in front of the headstont- on either side ot the mound. 
Like the ^raxe of Lieut. Wansboro. the heatl of thv- mound is 
toward the Jiielon garden. The owner of this tield is Nicanor 
Perei"a, who, I was intormetl, is in San Dominsj;o. 

The supposition that the unnamed praxes in the American 
Cemetery at Cane\- miL^ht bt: identified b\ the mimbers upon 
the wooden sticks placeel thereon proved to \)C well-L;round(,"d. 

* I'apt. Artliur II. Lee, R. A., British Military .Vttacln.-, in Sttibutr's M?^'n:inc for C»cto- 
ber, 1898, "The Regulars at El Caney." 



. A-vv/ANSBORO 

LIEUT yn.. T^eF. 

KTlLcLd J w > i j 1 . ^i a 




Fig. 103 
Marker at I.ietil. Wansboro' s Grave. 



18() ni>artial Graves 

Capt. Howell, of the 7th Infantry, furnished to the Adjutant 
General of the Army. August 13, 1898, a list of names of the 
soldiers who had been killed and buried at the above spot. 
The list was incomplete as to many of the Christian names of 
the dead and in several cases imperfect. But from an official 
list received by the courtesy of Gen. Ludington, of the Quarter- 
master's Department. I have been able to complete the list of 
Captain Howell, and to identify all the names furnished by him 
except three. These are " F. Riney, Corporal, I, 7th United 
States Infantry." and " R. A. Jones, Private. B, 7th United 
Infantry" and "I. Amter, Sergeant, F Company. 7th United 
States Infantry." These names do not appear on the 
official list. It is possible that they may be disguised by 
incorrect spelling, but I can find on that list no names of 
the men of the three regiments represented in the cemetery, 
who were killed on the ist of July, that seem to apply to 

the above. 

Some other names thus disguised I identified with reason- 
able certainty. For example : " Geiney, Private. F Company. 
I 2th United States Infantry," does not appear upon the official 
list ; but the name of Patrick Gearin, of the same company and 
regiment, who died at the same date, does appear. Again, the 

name of " Conoley, Private, D, 7th United States 

Infantry." does not appear upon the official list. But the name 
of " Con. Crowley" (No. 173), of the same company and regi- 
ment, who died July 1st. does appear. I have therefore sub- 
stituted the latter names for the former. No. 190 of my list 

which appears in Capt. I lowell's report as " McB 

I have considered to be " John McBride, D Company, i7lh 
United States Infantry." whose name is on the official list as 
havine been killed lulv ist. Another example is the name of 



Z\K Jfiriuii Xiuc Brolm^ Canc\? I'^r 

"Marshall ()'I)()\\<I, rri\atc. A, 7th L'niltd Slates IiifaiUry," 
which does not api)car on the otticial list. lUit the name of 
"John R. O'Dowd" of the same comj)any and regiment and 
date of death does aj^pear, and 1 have therefore entered that 
name upon m\' list, NO. 162. 

ConeerninL^ the three additional names upon Caj)t. I lowell's 
report, it ma\ he said that the) are probabh' correct. At h^ast. 
there ou^lit to Ije three names in addition to those identified as 
on the .Xdjiitant-General's list, in order to make up the numher 
ot graves observed 1)\- me in llu- cemeterw IncludinL; l.ieuts. 
Dickinson and W'ansboro, I counted forty-three, and the num- 
bers upon the sticks marking- the Li;-raves of enlisted men ran^^ed 
from No. 3 to No. 4:;. bicludiuL,^ Capl. 1 lowelTs three names, 
the list is complete as indicated by me. ( )mittinL;' them, tlvre 
are three graves lacking. I am not able to reconcile the tiis- 
crepancy, or furnish the lacking nanu-s. liut it is probable that 
Capt. I iowell, or some officer or man ot the three regiments 
represented in this bd Cane)' gra\c\ard, will be able to do so_ 
Nor can I be confident that the names as the)' appear in the 
following list are in the same order as the numbers u|)on the 
sticks, proceeding from Xo. 3 to 43. as abo\e indicated. 1 
believe that Mr. Rhotles, in his work of disinterring the i-emains 
ot these soldiers, has |jroceeded upon tile supi)osilion that the 
order runs as in Capt. Howell's n-port. and this is not improb- 
able. At all events, the friends of the dead may confidentl)' 
rely upon that gentleman doing th.e best that can j)ossibl)- be 
done to secure e.xact ideiititication ol the dead. 1 have attach<'d 
in i)arenthesis the number of excr)- gra\ c, as in the above state- 
ment, to the numbered name of m\- own series as it ap|)ears 
below. That the)- are identical, howe\ r, must be regarded as 
at present on!)' h)pothelical. 



188 /iDartial Graves 

\o. 157. (3) Robert Dudley Davis, Private. G Company, 
7th L'nited States Infantry. Died JuK" i st, 1898. 

No. 158. 14) John A. Clear)', Private, G Company, 7th 
l'nited States Infantry. Died luly ist, 1898. 

Xo. 159. (5) lohn \\\ Lon^-, Private, G Compan)-, 7th 
Ignited States Infantry. Died Jiih' ist, 1898. 

Xo. 1 6c. (6) William V. Crocker, Private, A Company, 7th 
l'nited States Infantry. Died [uly ist, 1898. 

Xo. 161. (7) John W.Jones, Quartermaster Sergeant, E 
Comi)any, 7th United States Infantry. Died |uly ist, 1898. 

Xo. 162. (8) John R. O'Dowd, Private, A Company, 7th 
United States Infantry. Died July 1st, 1898. 

Xo. 163. (9) Arthur C. McAllister, Private, I Company, 
7th United States Infantry. Died July 1st. 1898. 

Xo. 164. (10) Patrick f. Shea, Corporal, A Company, 7th 
United States Infantry. Died July 1st. 

Xo. 165. (11) Frank E. Wert, Musician, 7th United States 
Infantr\-. Died July 1st. 1898. 

Xo. 166. (12) P'rederick Timannus. Private, E Company, 
7th United States Infantry. Died |uly 1st, 1898. 

Xo. 167. (13) Harry Clark, Private, A Compan)-, 7th 
United .States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 168. (14) ¥. Riney, Corporal, I Company, 7th United 
.States Infantry. Died July 1st. 1898. (Xoton the Adjutant- 
General's list.) 

No. 169. (15) Daniel Conway. Corporal, C Company, 7th 
l'nited .States Infantry. Died July 1st, 1898, 

Xo. 170. (16) P'rancis Hulme, Private, C Company, 7th 
United States Infantry. P)ied July 1st, 1898. 

No. 171. (17) John W. Slaven, Private, G Company, 7th 
United .States Infantr)-. Dic-d |uly ist, 1898. 



Xo. 172. (iS) William 11. liaKhc l'rival<-. C Company. 
7th I'liitccl Slates liilaiUrN. Died July i-st. i8gS. 

Xo. 173. ( ic)) Con. Crowley. Private. D Conipaiu, 7ih 
United States Inlantry. Hied July i st. 1S9S. 

Xo. 174. (2(^1 I. .\nuer, Serjeant. 1' Company, 7th I nited 
States Infantry. I )ietl July ist, iSgS. Xot on the official list 
above referred to. 

Xo. 175. (21) lulward Seymour White, Private. C Com- 
pany, 7th United States Infantry. Died juK ist. 1S9S. 

Xo. 176. (22) August Sanber^-. Private. I^ Company. 7lh 
United States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 177. (23) lames M. Dermoody, Private (!*). G Com- 
l)any, 7th United States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 178. (24) Jesse M. llunt. Corporal, 1) Comiiany, 7ih 
I'nited States Infantry. Died July isl, 1898. 

No. 179. (25) Patrick McGraw, Private. I) Company, 7th 
United States Infantry. Died July ist. 1898. 

Xo. 180. (26) Raimund Miller. Sergeant, b' Company. 12th 
United States Infantry. Di<'d July 1st. 1898. 

Xo. 181. (27) Walter Prown, Private. A Company, 17th 
United States Infantry. Died July ist. 1898. 

Xo. 182. (28) Leonartl Weber. Private. G Company. 17th 
United States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

No. 183. (29) John Dahl. Serg-eant, Ci Company. 12th 
United States Infantry. Dietl July ist, 1898. 

No. 184. (30) John Maguire. Private. G Comi)any, 7th 
United States Infantry. Diecl Jul\ ist. 1898. 

Xo. 185. (31) Christian I lees, Corporal, b^ Company, i 7lh 
United States Infantry. Died JuK' ist. i8q8. 

Xo. 186. (32) .\dolphiis C. Scott, Private, b" Company. 
I 2th United Slates Infantry. Die<l July 1st. 1898. 



ii»o /IDavtial Graves 

Xo. 187. (33) ^-Gc Carson, Private, B Company, 7th 
I'nited States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 188. (34) Albert H. (iray, Private, B Company, 7th 
I'nited States Infantry. I )ied fiily ist, 1898. 

Xo. 189. {;i,^) Daniel Maher, Private, I) Company. 7th 
I nited States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 190. (36) John McBride, Private, E Company, 17th 
United States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 191. {^ty) R. A. Jones, Private, B Company, 7th 
United States Infantry. (Xot on the Adjutant-General's list.) 

Xo. 192. (38) George Shields, Private, H Company, 7th 
L' nited States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 193. (39) Silas T. Wilson, Sergeant, F" Company, 12th 
Ignited States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 194. (40) William T. Fuson, Private, A Company, 17th 
United States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 195. (41) Patrick (iearin, P^, 12th United States 

States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 196. (42) Philip Lehr, Private, C Company, 12th 
I'nited States Infantry. Died July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 197. (43) Frederick W. Dwyer, Private, B Company, 
7th I'nited States Infantry. Died July 1st, 1898. 

Xo. 198. " Xathaniel S. Isler, private, H Co., 7th Inf., 
died July ist, 1898." The guide led us southwardly and east- 
wardly along a rocky, sunken trail, which he named the 
" Rode." On the right of this road, as one moves from the 
town, and about ten feet from the track, is a single grave. It is 
on the edge of a field four hundred yards or more from the 
village, and is ele\ated alcove the road. The fort bears south- 
west. Three large brown bowlders mark the head and help to 
support a rustic stake on which the name "X. ISLER" is 



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dimly written in pencil, antl is ditlicult to decipher. | ust l)c) ontl 
the toot ot the orave is planted a post as a sort of ^iiitle-l)()anl, 
on the liewn tace ol which at the to]) is the iii->( rijiiii m • :;d 
Brigade. 2d Division, 7th Inf." (Id:.;-. 104.) A small hushh-t 
grows between the mound and this guitle-post. 




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Kic;. 104 

Grare of XtUhaiticl S. Isler, ~th i '. S. Iiifanlry, luar Caney. 

No. igg. Lieutenant Clark Churchman, .Second Lieu- 
tenant Ignited .States Infantry. Died July 2d, iS()S. 

A (juarter of a mile ( ast of Cane\' and a short distance 
south of the winding, rock\- trail, the Rode, with ih<' fort hear- 
ing southwest between thrte and four hundi-cd \ards distant, in 
an open held, surrountled b\- a bed of short, soft grass, is the 



192 /iDartial Graves 

o-rave of Lieut. Churchman, of the 12th Ignited States Infantry. 
It is a plain earthen mound, with a stick to mark the head, 
lust beyond tliis, to the east, is erected a guidedjoard whicli 
stands about ti\e feet high, and on this is inscribed the name 
and record. There is a clump of bushes close by to the east, 
and westward!)- the field slopes gently clown toward the 
village. 

This gallant )oung officer graduated at West Point with 
the Class of A. 1). 1898, and joined the Twelfth Regiment at 
Tampa, Florida, May 21st of the same year. He was ill with 
malarial fever when Lawton's division started on its march 
toward Caney, but insisted on accompanying his regiment. On 
the morninor of the battle he was so sick that the surgeon ureed 
him to remain in the hospital. But he entered the fight and 
led his platoon imtil two o'clock in the afternoon, directing its 
fire, as stated by the Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the regi- 
ment, " in a cool and gallant manner." He had just given his 
platoon the range of the fort, which was about three hundreci 
and fifty yards distant, and had directed them in the firing of 
two volleys. He stood surveying the enem)' through his field 
glasses with the utmost composure while the Mauser bullets 
rained around him. Havinsf ascertained the ranoe to his satis- 
faction, he had uttered the order "Aim !" and before he could 
complete the order "Fire!" was struck with a bullet and fell 
mortally wounded. 

.Shortly before his death, Lieut. Churchman handed to one 
of his fcllow-ofticers, 1^'irst Lieut. Wdlson Ldine, a fragment of 
soiled and crumpled j)aper, on which was written the words, 
"It buried here let grave be distinctly marked,"' and signed 
with his name and rank (See Chap. II, Pig. 15). That was all. 
Put the silent message exj^resses his longing to sleep the last 



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lit:; 



sleep in the dear home laiui : liis tlioii-lutul rc-ard t<.r lowd 
ones whose sorrow woukl l)c allc\ iat.-d hy the sad salislaction 
of recovering- the body of their son and -iNiniL^- it due fiincnd 



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Fk;. 105 
Gra7'es of Lieul. Clai k C/iiin/,,,i„,i, CorpomlAyn- ,n,d Prirate Kerrigan, ;/,•<;;• C<7»ey. 

honors : and his confidence thai Ids kindred or his comrades 
woukl surely search for him on the distant hattletields of Cuba. 
Noble young soldirr ' His dyin- \v< -ds have voiced the feel- 
ing of every iallen hero, and have insi)ired the writer of these 



104 /iDartial Graves 

lines to persevere in fulhllino- that duty to the dead and to their 
loviniT friends to whicli he was assigned by the highest author- 
ity in the nation. 

Lieut. Churchman was the only son and only cliild of Col. 
Caleb Churcliman, a \eteran of the Civil War. Mrs. Church- 
man, the young man's mother, sent a message to me in Cuba, 
requesting that I would search for the grave of their son. On 
my return I was able to satisfy the an.xiety of these bereaved 
j^arents, and give them a drawing of their son's grave and 
specihc directions as to where his body could be found. Sub- 
sequently a relative was sent to Santiago, the remains were 
disinterred, and on their arrival in the L'nited States were taken 
to West Point, where they were buried with most impressive 
ceremonies in the cemetery of the Military Academy where 
repose all that is mortal of many heroes of other conflicts for 
the honor of our country and its flag. 

The young Lieutenant, who had left the Academy but a 
few months before to enter upon his brief career as an officer 
of the arm)', was known to nearly all the professors and under- 
graduates of the institution. He was loved and admired for 
his manly and Christian character by all his associates and 
instructors. The obsequies, therefore, awakened unusual inter- 
est and excited the tenderest feeling. The sword and b(.;lt of 
the young officer lay upon the casket. The Post fiag was at 
half mast and all academic duties were suspended during the 
service, (jathered in the historic chapel were the superintendent, 
professors, officers on duty at the Post, their families, and the 
entire corps of cadets. The Chaplain of the Military Academy 
was assisted in the service by a young clergyman who had been 
a classmate of Lieut. Churchman in Trinity College, Hartford. 
While the cadet choir sang the closing hymn the casket was 



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'oiiu, aiul so 



l)()riu-(l()\\n lhc aisle upon the shoulders of (■'\<^\n soldiers. An 

t-'scort Ironi the detachineiu of Regulars was drawn np in tront 

of the Chapel, and as the casket was placed upon a caisson, 

the Academy hand played "Nearer. My God. to 'Ihee." 'Ihen 

the i)rocession nio\cd to the sound of the funeral march. 

l)assetl the I'attle Monument, and 'i"roi)h\- 

out the north road to the cemeter\-, where 

th(.' youn-' hero was left to sleep side by side 

with other \()uthl\il heroes of Caney and San 

juan. Ihetcirewell shots were fired above the 

"spot where the hero was l)uried,"' and the 

notes of " I.i-hts out I '" blown b\- tlu; bugler. 

reverlx-rated anion-- the hills of the Hudson 

hiL;hlands. 

In a lar-c siiiL^le -ra\c to the northeast of 
Lieut. Chuichman"s are buried two men (.See 
¥\<^ 105). 'I heir names are inscribed upon the 
side of a rustic stake hammered securely into 
the ground at the head of the mound (see big. 
106). 1 he inscriptions are as follows : 

" Corp. Chas. 1.. .\yer, Co. A, 7ih C S. Inf 



Prvt. K. Kerrigan. Co. 15, 7th int.' 



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(■need some difficult\- in delineating'- c- ■ , 

» o/v* tnarker nf the 



I e.Xjx 

the last surname, but decided it to be as al)OVe. .cv/rr </ Corporal 
.\(). lOtO Cr)|-|)or:d (Ivirh-c \ \^•/.1- r\. .iyer ait,i Private 



K'rrri'-oti. 



200. Corporal Charles .\. .\\er. Co. 
A. 7th C. .S. bifantry. died lul\- ist. iS(,S. 

Xo. 201. I'rivate i;. Kerri-an. Co. IS. 7th l. .s. Infantry. 
Died bib' 1st. iSgS. '1 his name is not on my co|)\- of the 
official list, and I fmd no name that could be considered its 
e(pii\alent. 

Xo. 202. I'rvt. Clarence C. Dratten. Co. I'.. 12th Inf V . S. 



liiO 



/iDartial Graves 



Army. Died lul\' i st. 189S. The grave of Private Bratten is 
a lone mouiul in the edge of a field about eighteen teet from 
the road, a little east of south 



of the fort. It is a simple earthen 
mound with a tuft of tall grass 
at the foot and a rustic stake at 
the head, on which is the in- 
scription. Pjeyond the grave 
is erected a tall fingerboard 
about 6 ft. high, on the cross- 
piece ot whicli is recc^rded : 
"Prvt. C. C. Bratten, Co. II 
1 2th Inf. 12." A path along 
the edge ot the field passes l^\' 
the foot of the orave. 



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It- 




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Fig. 107 
Grave </ C. C. Rralteii 121J1 U. S, Infa)itrv, near Cancy 



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Tiirnini;- out of the Ivoili- track into a trail that K.-ads toward 
the northeast on the ri^ht hand side of the roatl are located 
two j^raves. The soldiers who sleep within them apjx.'ar to 
ha\e been the tirst tatalities in the fighting around C'aney. and 
it is probable that the\' were in the advance column ot Gen. 
Lawton's dixision as it moved forward to the attack. ( )nr gra\ <• 
is marked "Ryan, (i, 7th Inf." The marker ui»on the other 
grave has nothing discernable but the letters " Mck.' 1 he 
point at which these men are buried is about one thousand 
yards northeast of the village of El Caney and almost in a line 
eastward from the American Cemetery, 

No. 203. .Samuel |. I\\an, Trixate. G Comi)any. 7th I'nited 
States Infantry. I )ied July 2d, iSgS. The full name, with 
company connection and date ot death. ha\ e been taken h-om 
the official records. It would ajipear that Ryan receixcd a 
mortal wound on this occason and died in the temporar\- tield 
hospital on the tollowing day. 

Xo. 204. ■• McK ." (iod only knows the rest. 

We jxtss ne,w to the southward of the fort, and to the 
westward of the mountain creek that incloses it widiin its lorks. 
The village is due north about lour hundred yards distant. 
Here are buried in one large grave, near two large mango 
trees, five soldiers of the Fourth infantry. The held in which 
their grave is located is known, after a Cuban custom to desig- 
nate plantations b\' some title, by the name oi " Santa Teresa 
de Jesus," as our guide informed us, and is owned b\- ' Lawy<'r 
Plana," of Santiago de Cuba. The mound is nine teet scpicU'e, 
and is walled about b\ rocks, three of the corners being marked 
bv a pile of stones with a large rock as the centre. On the 
southwest corner is erectt^d a i)yramid of stones over three feet 
high, from whose apex rises a board on which are recorded the 




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1!II» 



lARTIFN ANDERSON, 
PRVT. H.T. GRUB' 
PRVT. N.H. KELLY 
PRVT. AH H05FlEL(j 

^,^ MEMBER6 0F CO.c; 

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names of those iiUen-rd within tlv toinli. I hi- names are also 
recorck-(l on a eiir\c(l tile wliiih is leaned aL^ainst the stones on 
one side. A path throiiL^h the held passes aloiiL^one sid<- ot the 
grave, which is IriiiL^cd li\' phiincd grasses and low shriil)S. 
The fort hears to the northeast, and the ^nue is luit a short 
distance southeast of the road Ix-tween Santiaoo and (_'ane\-. 
(h\^-. loS.) 

Xo. 205. Artihcer 
Nele Anderson, Com- 
]iany C, 4th I aiitetl States 
Infantrx. Killed Jiil\- i, 
1898. 

No. 206. Private 
Henry T. Ciruby, C(Mn- 
pany C, 25th I'nited 
States hifantr\'. Killed 
Jnl\- I, 1898. 

Xo. 207. Private 
Her. H. Kelley, Company 
C, 25th United States 
Infantrx'. Killed July i, 

1898. 

Xo. 208. Private 

Alhert Hossfield. Company C, 25th I'nited .States Infantry. 

Killed Jul\- 1, 1898. 

Xo. 209. Musician 1". S. ^'. (or j.) Walters. Company ("., 

4t]i United States Infantrx'. Killed JuK' i. 1808. This nam«- 

does not appear upon the copy ot the otticial list in m\- 

possession. 

Another interestiiiL;' .^rouj) of '^rax'es is tound in a south- 

westerlv tlirection froni the above, and directh' south ot tlie 



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IhadboarJ at the grave of Fourth Infantrymen, Coney. 



2(»(» /iDautial Graves 

town, perhaps a (juartcr of a mile. It is on a plantation known 
as Santa Thomas, the property of Don Angel Choven of 
Santiao-o de Cuba. The oraves are on the edoe of the field 
with the heads toward the trail, between which and the field is 
a natural hedge of trees and shrubs. 

Xo. 2IO. The grave of Lieut. H. L. McCorkle, 25th U. S. 
Infantry, is an earthen mound marked originally by a headboard 
supported by a heap of bowlders (Fig. iii). A cross formed 
of stones rests upon the breast (Fig. i 10). The grave had 
subsequently been surrounded by an iron enclosure, of the sort 
that one sees in the windows of Cuban houses, as a protection 

against the outside world. 
My own views ot this group 
failed in development, and 
instead of giving my pencil 
sketch I reproduce a view 
bought in a photographer's 
.. „.. ..., ^. shop in Santiago (Fig. 112). 

Fig. 110 ,,,, .11 

,, , , Ihis shows the grave in a 

Cross of stones on Lieut. AIcLorkle s ^•■roTe. 

different sort of fence from 
that which surrounded it when seen by me. The boardlike 
enclosures seen on each side were w^anting, and in their place 
was an iron fence extending along each side the entire length. 
A tall iron frame with figured work stood at the head, and a 
similar one at the foot, thus wholly surrounding the mound, 
leaving the original headboard intact but outside the frame. 

Nos. 21 1-2 I 7. Seven soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry 
are buried in one grave at the side of their young officer. The 
four regular regiments composed of colored citizens, engaged 
in th(; \arious actions before Santiago, accpiitted themselves 
with steadiness, skill and valor that won from all, even the most 




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prejiulicccl, the wariiK^st cncomiiinis. At Las Giiasiinas the 
Tenth Cavah-y joined with the 1-irst Regiment of Cavah'v 
(white) in the llank nioxcincnt that supported so (tHecti\cly lh<! 
Roug'h Riders, the I'irst XOhniteer Cavah-y. In the charge <tn 
San Juan hills the same regiment (Tenth), together with the 
Nhith Cavalry and Twenty-fourth Infantry, both composetl of 
colored troops, mounted the huUet-swejJt slo])es side 1)\- side 
with their white comrades, the ver\' llowcr oi the reguhir arm\-. 
At Caney the Twenty-fifth Infantry 
fought with equal valor and distinc- 
tion, and on the final charge, which 
won the h)rt, joined with the'Twellth 
Infantry which letl the assault. The 
seven soldiers who sleep at the 
side of Lieut. McCorkle on Santa 
Thomas plantation are the silent 
witnesses of tin; patriotism, manli- 
ness and courage of their race. 

Their grav(; is a larg^e |)lain 
mound, ha\ing at the head two 
boards side by sitUt on which tin- 
names are inscribc^d. These are 

supported in plac<' by several bowlders. A tall stick rises 
from the mound l)efore tlu; headboards, i)robably the original 
marker, and a shorter stick is thrust into the foot. (See Fig. 
112.) Two yoimg trees grow just back of the headboards of 
the two graves from which sections of the bark have been 
hewed, and within the clean Hat spaces have been placed on one 
tree the name ol Lieut. McCorkle, and on the other th(' names 
of his men, above which is the i)hrase •' 25th Ink. Roll ot 
Honor." (See Fig. iM.) The record on the heailboards was 







Fic. 1 1 1 

IliiiiiboiHii ,it I.ieiit. Mi Corkle i ;-ri/;r. 




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probably made after that on the tabU-t had been carved, and is 
more accurate. I'hc- lisi lollows. 

No. 211. C'oi'i'oral iMnjamiii Cousins. Coinpaiu II. 25th 
United States bilaiUiy, killed July 1, 1S9S. 

Xo. 212. I'rixale l'"r(-nch I'aync-. Compan\- 1), 25tli I'niled 
States IntaiUry. killed July 1, 1S9S. 

Xo. 213. l'ri\ate i'oiu llowe, Compan\- I), 25th I'nited 
States Intantr\-. killed July 1, 1S9S. 

Xo. 214. l'ri\ale lohn !'>. Phelps, Company P, 25th I'nited 
States Intantr)-, killed July 1. 1 SgS. 

Xo. 215. l'ri\ale |()hn W. .Steele, Coinpan)' 1 ). 25th Cnit<'d 
States bitaiUrx, killed Jul\- 1, 1S9S. 

Xo. 216. I'rixate .\aron Leftwitch, Company (i, 25th 
United States hitantry. killed Jul\- 1, 1S9S. 

No. 217. Private .Mberl Strother, Compaiu' II, 25lh 
I'nited States Inlantr), killed July 1. 1 S9S. 

No. 21S. ( )\er a winding' trail leading- into the road to 
Santiago in a southerl\- direction from Caney, and about a mile 
therefrom, our -uicU; led us to the grave of Sergt. 1'. Kirl)\-. 
Co. \\ 4th r. S. Infanlrw Iln; mound is edged with stones, a 
large bowlder is placed at the; foot and a headboard sui)poried 
by bowlders bears the inscri[)tion : "I. U.S. Sergt. P. Kirby. 
Co. V. V. S. A. Killed July 1, iS9S.'" I'lv record of the rc-gi- 
meiU is somewhat in doubt on my notes, but appears to be the 
"4th " Infantrw dhe grave is on a slight blutf above the road, 
ami is almost under the shadow of three fme cocoanut trees. 
It is on the "-San .\ndrea " plantation, belonging to Mr. Pancho 
Godet (Fig. 114). 

iM'om the grave of Sergeant l\irb\- one i)asses southerly 
through a cluster of shrubs and young trees along the edge of 
the Sunken Roatl, and through a cocoanut grove into an ojx-n 




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Tree-tablet commemorative of members of the 33th U. S. Jnjanlry killed at Caney. 



field. I Icrc is a lilllc icmcicry <>n lh<- caslern side ol the main 
road leading to Santiago, and ahoiil a mile Iroin Caney. ll is 
on the xers^e oT a man^cj _L;ro\-e and is composed chietly ol men 
of the Second Massachusetts X'oliinteer Infantry. 'rh»re are 
two lar^-e mounds conlainiuL; enlisted men anil two L;ra\<s ol 
officers. (Id:^. 117.) 




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lie. 114 

Grn7C pf Seigeiint Kirly, ^ih i'. S. 

fnf'iinfry. 



No. 219. I he lar^c mound near- 
est the road evidently contains several 
bodies, but as there is no mark ol 
any sort bv which to distini^uish the names ol those who sleep 
within, one can only conjecture their names 1)\- an e.xamination 
of the Adjutant neMieral's list after eliminating^ all the men ol 
the Second Ih-i^^ade who are reported as ha\inL.'' been killed on 
lulv 1st and who are not otJK rwise accounted tor. 

Xos. 220-227. dhe larLie mountl just east of the above 
contains eit^^it lK-)dies. The only mark upon it was a small 
stick cut from a tree, about fourteen inches long and two inches 



20B 



nnavtial Graves 



thick. PVom one side the bark had been cut away, and several 
names, most of which would be indistinguishable by an ordi- 
nary observer, were written upon the hewed surface in pencil. 



2d Mass »S: 3d 
A II PACKARD 
RICllMOXD 



BROOKS E 

F E Moody K 

J M alone B 



C- 



- jindra 
B 3d Reg-. 



Chas. Dugas 
Co D 2d Mass 



M j Warner 
Co B 22d 



Fic. 115 

Interpretation of inscription en the 

marker, Fig. ii6. 




Fic;. 116 
JJrtr,vn from the marker on a 
large mound on Caney bat- 
tlefield. To sho-o difficulty 0/ 
deciphering names. 



"S\v. Rhodes brought this stick home witli him, after having 
erected a headboard, in order to make out the names by the 
aid of official reports. From it 1 have made a drawing (Fig. 



"Cbc jrinuii Xinc Bl•oun^ Caiicx? 2(i7 

I i6) which iini)crffctl\' rcpi'ocUn'cs the rude and inaiTrd pciu il 
\\]'j; cxidciuly made 1)\ an unpi-attiicd hamh It will show, at 
least, something ol the ditlicult)' which attended the work of 
decij:)ht'rinL; inscriptions and desij^matinL,;' the cjraves on thcst; 
fields. I also print side hy side with iIk- cut il'i.L;'. 1151 the 
names L:i\'<'ii ni<" I'V Mr. Rhodes as his interpretation of the 
scroll. In the roll wliich lollows I !^i\(' the full names as! Uavc. 
restored them from the official list in the War 1 )epartment. 
hrom this list oiie name is wanting' which appears upon the 
-Stick (and it is the- most distinc-t of all) that of M. |. Warner, !> 
Company, jjd Tnited States Infmtrw 

Probal)l\- it will he impossibk; to identify indi\ idualK' the 
names within this mountl. The e.xistence of some system of 
marking, and ])erhaps a little more pains and inlelliL.;"enc(; and 
less haste on the part ol the hospital corps or hurial i)arty, 
would have enableel us to distini^uish e\-er\- person antl restore 
the remains to friends in .\merica. .\s it is. the only satisfac- 
tion permitted is the knowh-d^e that the remains of some one 
ot the cML^ht hero(;s who slept side 1)\- side within this laule 
grave, represent the friend who died in the cause of liberty and 
humanity in front of the Spanish fort on El \'iso at Caney. 
However, it may justly be remembered in this case that after 
the battle (len Lawton's Division, undi'r imp(iMli\ c o]-ders, was 
hurried forward as rapidly as possible to reinforce the remainder 
of the Fifth Army Corps in front of ,Santiai.;o. and to take its 
place to the northwest in the line of iinestment on the right of 
the Cavalr\- I )i\ ision. 

Xo. 220. Private Arthur II. P.ickard. Company C, 2d 
Mass. \'ol. Inf, killed ful\' i. iS()S. 

No. 221. l'ri\at(; ( ieorge A. Riclimond. Comj)any (1. 2d 
Mass. \'()1. Inf, killed July i, 189S. 



208 



/IDartial Graves 



\o. 2 22. Private George A. Brooks. Company E, 2d 
Mass. Vol. Inf.. killed July i, 1898. 

No. 223. Private P'rank E. Moody. Company K, 2d Mass. 
Vol. Inf.. killed July 1, 1898. 

No. 224. Private John J. Malone. Company P), 2d Mass. 
Vol. Inf., killed July i, 189S. 




l-'ic. 1 17 

Graves of Lietits. Bernard ami Field, and 7'arioiis soldiers of the 2d Massaclnisetts Voltmieers, 

knoTvn and unknown, al Cancy. Lieut. Bernard's grave is nearest the fronl. 

No. 225. Private Albert Jindra, Company B, 3d U. S. Inf., 
killed July i. 1898. 

No. 226, Private Anatole Duoas. Co. D. 2d Mass. \'ol. 
Inf., killed July i. 1898. On the marker this name appears to 
be Charles Dugas. liut as no such name appears on the 
official list of killed, and as the above name is there given, I 
have assumed that this is the correct record. 

No. 227. Private M. J. Warner, Company P), 2 2d U. S. 



Zbc jfinna %\nc Uvcwn^^ Cancv 



I'll".! 



Inf., killed lul\- I, 1 898. This name appears iiol to have been 
reiK)rt(Hl lo the Adjutant General's office, at least it is not upon 
the othcial list in my i)ossession. 

No. 228. lust south of th(;sc two lar_Li[<' mounds iwi- the 
U^raves of two officers. The one nearest the road is that ol 
First Lieutenant Charles II. iMeld. L Company. 2d Massachu- 
setts X'olunteer Infantr)-, who was killed July i. 1898. The 
Lj-ra\e is oirdled ahout with stone antl is neatly marked with .1 
cross headboard bearing- an inscription which 
designates the inmate. 

No. 229. The grave ne.xt to Lieutenant 
iMeld on the east is that of Second Lieut. John 
1. Bernard of the 6th I'niletl .Stales Infiiilry, 
killed Iul\' 1st. i8()S. It is surrounded with 
stones, and a s(|uare bit ot a bo.x cover sup- 
ported upon two sticks bears the inscription. 
This assigns Lieut. Bernard to the L^ourth 
InfaiUr\-, but his name appears upon the otticial 
list as belonging to the Si.xth Infantr\-. 

.Southward of Caney. just off the main 
road, are three graves, only one of which could 
be identitietl. They were made in front of a house which had 
been completeh- destro\etI for the sake of the tlry wood ol the 
interior. .\ heap of tiles marks its site. In th" transit to and 
fro to get the wood, the crosses and marks which the guides 
informed me had been on the graves were removed. I macUr 
a search among the rubbish and at last found a broken tile on 
which was an inscrii)tion. TIk' piece exactly litted into a 
broken section fixed in the soil at the head of one ot the 
graves, which was thus identifietl is that of Private Sutter, Co. 
1'. 22d Infiutrv ( I'iL:-. 1181. The ••raves had almost lost their 




J- 1.. 11- 

TiU marker at I'ri 
7a te Sutter's gra-.f. 



210 



/IDavtial Graves 



characteristic form, but the shoht depression in the ground 
sufficiently designated them. I had them all bordered with 
roofing tiles from the ruins, so as to restore the semblance of 
graves, and fixed Sutter's marker in place, so that identification 
for permanent designation might be possible (Fig. 119). 

Xo. 230. Gustavus v.. Sutter, private. E Co.. 22d U. S. 
Infantry. Killed July ist, 1898. 

Xo. 231-232. Unknown American Soldiers. 
Xos. 2^,^240. Moving northward from the last-named 
(i-roup of graves along the Santiago Road toward Caney, one 

comes to a plantation of thirteen cocoa- 
nut trees which extend in a westerly 
direction about two hundred yards from 
the road. At the end of the cocoanut 
grove and some three hundred yards 
southward of the village, is a large 
mound which contains seven men from 
the 8th and 2 2d United States Infantry 
regiments. Their names, however, are 
*^ not recorded and can only be obtained 

Didgravi of graves of Private • ^ ^ r i J r 1 

Suiter {230) and comrades, tentatively by a caretui study ot the 
^^"^O'- official reports. It is possible, however, 

that the officers or men of these tw^o regiments have informa- 
tion which would supply the deficiency. Immediately in front of 
the grave are two mango trees. This mound appears to 
mark the extreme northwestern line of attack, and would 
indicate that the left of Gen. Ludlow's brigade extended to this 
point. It is probable that it extended further around and 
joined w ith the right of Gen. Chaffee's brigade. But as far as 
the record of the graves indicates, an opening was left in the 
line of circumvallation at tliis northeastern angle. 



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House ] 


tzt 


231 




230 


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9 

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1 Road 


ToS 


ANTIBGO 



Zbc Jfivino tine Bl*olm^ Cancx"' 



211 



III tlic list (»!" martial L;ra\es Hear \i\ Cancy arc two which 
were oxcrlookcil until too late to record in their pnjper con- 
nection. I hey are on the way to San .Mii^uei, west of" the 
xiilaL^e. They lie in low ground near the road and on the 
south side thereof. 

Xo. ^^j. The first gn-a\c is that of Louis Korarnik i Ko^ay- 
nik) of Hattery V, 4th Artiller\, who died lul\- ist, iS(,S. Ihe 
tlate indicates that he may ha\e died of wounds receiveil in the 
battle ot July 1st. His ^n-ave is about four hundred yards, as 
Mr. Rhodes estimates, west of Cane\' ( biL;". 120.) 

.\o. :;3S. The second grave is one hundred \-ards nearer 
Caney than Kocarnik's, and is that of bri\.ite- M. T. Corbin, 
Troop C. I'nited .States Cavalry, who died luly 
6 (?), 1 89S. Mis nauK' is not in m\- copy of 
the official list. I'he dat(' indicates that he 
probably dieil ot sickness. 

Xo. 241. .\t a ])oint southwartl of Caney 
and to the northeast of the grave of Sergeant 
Kirby ( Xo. 21S) and a little distance east- 
erly ot the road to Santiago is the grave of Lieutenant 
Nicolas L^ranca, an officer of the Cuban contingent assigned 
to Gen. Lawton for duty as scouts and guides. It is near 
a point where several trails meet, and is marked b\- a sli-ht 
mound, scarcely mortt than a little patch of yellow earth. 
Ihis officer was killed at the l)altle of Caney while ser\ing 
with the American army. The grave was entirely hidden 
b\- a littk; copse ot shrubbery, and the guitle who showed 
it had to push the bushes aside to give us a glimpse of his 
compatriot's gra\e (see Chap. Xi. 

Xo. 242. Lhis number mark; the grave of Rai»hael 
Oiiintana, of Caney. It is in the middle of the road leading to 




Fii;. 120 



212 



/lOarttal Graves 



the American cemetery and is near it (M^". 121). Ihis untor- 
tiinatt? man was sliot 1)\- order of Gen. \'ara del Rey in the act 
ot escapino- to join the American army. He was taken by a 
squad of Spanish officers to the si)ot al)ove indicated, was shot 
to death, and left lyino- where he fell in the road. When 
the American soldiers ad\-anced to this point, they found the 
remains, which were much decomposed, and gave them decent 
burial. (See further in Chapter X.) 

All accounts agree that the compau)' of Cubans assigned 
to duty with die Second Dixision did good service ; and 

there is equal unani- 
•>. 4:P' ^-% I ni 1 1 )^ in the state- 

ments that those who 
accompanied the col- 
unins attacking San 
|uan were demoral- 
ized by the losses 
from artillery shells at 
El Pozo and were of 
no value in action. 
An incidental proof of the service wrought bv the Canev 
condngent is furnished by Mr. Henry H. Lewis. On Sunday, 
while on a visit to Cane)-, he happened into the old stone 
church on the plaza which had served the .Sjjaniards as a fort 
on th(? istot July. The weather-stained building bore many 
marks of conflict; but nati\-e hands had patched up the doors, 
and there was evidence of new tiling here and there in the 
roof. He noticed several women in black who were leading 
little children, disappear inside the church, and followed just as 
a bell overhead tolled drearily. 

Hie interior was scantily furnished and not over clean. 




""■JiLLU^ 



l-'lG. 121 

Grave of Raphael Qiihi/aiia, iwai- Caney. 



s^ 



Si 



s. 




-1^ fmartial Graves 

The altar showed signs of neglect; but there was a priest 
present and a number of natives, and in the aisle, midway from 
the door, resting upon a wooden bier, was a coltin. As Mr. 
Lewis watched, the padre produced a small book and prepared 
to read. The light was dim, and he stepped over to where a 
bright shaft of sunlight shot diagonally across the church from 
a broken-edged hole in the wall close to the ceiling, evidently 
made by a shot from Capron's batter)'. Then he resumed his 
service in a sonorous voice. Presently a Cuban, apparently 
one of the better class, slipped over to where the foreign visitor 
stood, and asked respectfully : 

"You are an American, senor?" 

On receiving assent, he continued, with a jerk of his right 
thumb toward the coffin : " Jesus Montero. there, was in the 
great battle, senor ! He was a scout with your General Chaffee, 
and he was wounded by a Mauser bullet from the block house 
on the hill. He died last night !'"== 

* Henry Harrisan Lewis: ALmsey' Magazine, March 1S99, p S60. 



Chapter VllI 



At Las Guasimas 



w 



HERE is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kel- 

lyn ? 
Where may the grave of that good man 

be?— 
By the side of a spring, on the breast of 

Helvellyn, 
Under the twigs of a young birch tree ! 
The oak that in summer was sweet to hear, 
And rustled its leaves in the fall of the 

year, 
And whistled and roar'd in the winter alone, 
Is gone, — and tlic birch in its stead is 

grown, — 
The knight's bones are dust, 
And his good sword rust ; — 
His soul is with the saints, I trust. 

Samuel Taifok Coleridck. 

"Make way for Liberty '. he cried. 
Make way for Liberty, and died. 

J AM i:s ^ I ()NT( i( )M KKY . 



The Field of Las Guasimas 




11'^ battle of Las (luasiinas was fought 1)\' llic Second 
IJri^ade of Maj.-G<-n. Wheeler's division ot dis- 
mounted cavalry on the day followini^- its landinL^- at 
l)ai(]uiri. The expedition conveying;- the hilth Army 
Corjjs arrived in Santia^^^o on the 20th of June, 1 S(;S, ahoiit 
noon. After a conference between (ien. Shafter, Admiral 
Sampson and tlie Cuban General Garcia, a i)lan for landing- was 
ao-reed upon. .At some point west of Sanliai^o a leint was to 
be made to dixcrl and confuse the attention ot the .Sj)aniards. 
while the navy should bei^in on th(' morning; "t juiut 2 2(1 die 
strategic bombardment of Daicjuiri. A^uadores. .Siboney and 
Cabanas. In the meantime the e.xpedition was to land at 
Daiquiri, dhis plan was substantially carried out. 

The Idfth Army Cori)s embraced two divisions ol InlaiUry 
commanded l:)y Generals 1. b'ord Kent and I I. W. Lawton and 
a dixision of dismounted cavalry actini;- as infantr)- commanded 
by Gen. Joseph Wheeler. There was also a battalion of li.L^ht 
artillery consistim^ of batteries K and K ol tin- bu'st I nited 
.States Artillery, and batteri(\s .\ ami V of the Second .\rlillery. 
There was a train of .siege artillery comjiosed ot batteries (i 
and 1 I which, howexer. was not landed. The tr(M)ps began to 
disembark on lun<; 22tl. and b\- the afternoon of the 2;^tl the 
w(^rk was completed through the acdve co-operation of th(; 
navy. The landing was practically unopposed b\- th(' Span- 




■^ 
2 



iards. a result due to the ettcct of the iia\al lj()inl)arclnuMU. to 
their uncertaintx- as to tlie American plans, and, jXM'haiis, in 
part also to the demonstration ot the C"iil)an contingent under 
Gen. Castillo. 

(ien. Lawton's diN'ision was the first to diseml)ark, and he 
was followed 1)\- the ca\alr\- dixision. Lawton immediately- 
pushed his men westwaril and surprised the Spanish shore-i^uard 
at sunrise-, and his trooi)s had the satisfaction of eatiiiL^ the 
breakfast which the enemy had ahandoned in hot haste. Part 
of Gen. ^'ou^L;■s hri^ade left the ships on the eveninLj' ol th<- 
2 2(1, and the rt'Uiainder L;"()t ashore on the morning of the 2;^el. 
On the afternoon of the same day the brigade moved w('stward 
in order to find good cami)ing ground antl water ; and att<r a 
march of sexcn or eight miles. o\er a hilK' trail of jinigle matted 
with wild \iiu;s, at nightfdl reached Siboney, where Gen. 
Wheeler had his headtpiarters. As the desirable camping 
eround in the neiehborhood of Sibone\- was occupied 1)\ other 
troops, Gvn. ^'oung recpiested jxa-mission to ad\ance in iht! 
morning and dislodge a force of Spaniards said t(^ b«- in the 
neighborhood occupying good elevated ground, and secure 
their position for camping purposes. =•' 

Gen. Wheeler states that he rode rapidi\- to the bout to 
make })ersonal surve\- of the field, and found the enemy in a 
strong i)osition some three miles be\ ond .Sibonex-. ( .en. L as- 
tillo's Cubans had already engaged the enemy on the 2;:,i\. hav- 
ing been sent to reconnoiter.v Ihe lighting thus begun was by 
a battalion of one hnndre(l and twent\- scouts under bieut.-Col. 
Aguierre about two miles northwest of Siboney. and was con- 
tinued until the Spaniards fell back to their entrenchments. 

* Report of the President's War Investigating Con. mission. 
f " Wheeler's S.inii.igo Cam] aij^n.'' pp. K), 241. 



'220 nnartial Gvav^cs 

Gen. Wheeler saw seven injured Cubans, one wounded 
severely, others slightly, and he reports that two were killed.''' 

It was the popular belief in the United States immediately 
after the enoagement at Las Guasimas, that our troops had 
been ambuscaded. But the official report shows that the plan 
of battle was carefully considered and arranged by Gen. 
W heeler in conference with Gen. Young and Col. Wood, 
His own account of the the plan of action t is that Col. Wood, 
with the First Volunteer Cavalry, was to march by a left-hand 
or westerly road, while the Motchkiss guns and the two squad- 
rons of the First and Tenth Cavalry were to march on what is 
called the main Santiago Road. The dynamite gun, which was 
momentarily expected, was to join the expedition, and Gen. 
Castillo was also to march with the command accompanied by 
two hundred Cubans. Neither the Cubans nor the dyna- 
mite gun arrived upon the field in time to take part in the 
fightino-. 

The reconnoitering expedition on the day preceding had 
indicated that the enemy was in a strongly intrenched position 
on elevated ground, and drawn up in line of battle command- 
ing both roads of approach from Siboney towards Santiago. 
Gen. Young's brigade was composed of the First and Tenth 
United States Cavalry, and the regiment of Rough Riders 
under Col. Leonard Wood, in all nine hundred and twenty-four 
men, of whom more than half belonged to the Rough Riders, 
According to the plan agreed upon Col. Wood, with eight 
troops oi his regiment, was to take the left of the attacking 
line, while the two regular regiments, with four troops each, 
took the rio'ht. 

A road, or so-called road, and a rough mountain trail led 

*" Wheeler's Santiago Campaign,'" p. 241. t //'., p. 16. 



from llif landiiiL; jjlacc al Sihoiu-y ()\<t the coast liills to a -ap 
in lh<ii- western wall, whence they descend into the \ailcy ol 
the San Juan in h-ont of Santia,<(o (Majj. I-'ii^. 124). 'l"he ri-ht 
jiand track ascends throuLih a little notch in tlu: hills to a small 
upland \allc\ which is densely c-oNcrcd with lr<)|»i<al tn-fs and 
shruhs. ICverywhcre al)o\-e the l)ush\- foliage; tower lhe|)lunied 
heads of tht; royal i)alnis," and the landscape- was hrilliant with 
flamboyant trees-J- at that season of the year ^low in-- with scarlet 
blossoms. This valley road unites w ith the left hand trail about a 




^jm^'. 



Fig. 123 

A Sfiinish u>iir fiitnui^lfiuriif 

inilr before reachiu- Sexilla. and the two tracks urv. at no |K.int 
more than a mile and a half apart. Near the junction ol the 
roads the entire valley is overlooked by the hii^h hills which 
shoot out as si)urs from the Sierra Maestra ^b)untains. I he 
centre of these hills is a i)recipitous rid.;e. which prctjects from 
the range like a huoe nose : or in more military i)hrase is in 
the form of an obtuse angle with th • salient towards Sibnn<-y. 

* Oreodo.xia regia. t Probably C.Tsalpinia pulcherrima. 



•2-2-2 riDartial Graves 

( )n the military crest, and amonL; the rocks of tliis ridge, 
and on the llanking- hills the Spaniards had made their entrench- 
ments, and had constructed riHe pits and stone barricades. Two 
i^Lins were mounted upon the ramparts, which commanded both 
approaches to Santiago from the sea, and the rifle pits were 
occupied by Si)anish regulars armed with Mauser riHes and 
smokeless powder. The breastworks were flanked by block- 
houses, the approaches obstructed by wire fences and entangle- 
ments, and an ad\'anc(; j^arty oi Spaniards was thrown out in 
front of the entrenchments and in the thick brush at th(,' head 
of the valley, their extreme right resting upon an abandoned 
aguardiente distillery converted into a blockhouse. 

The column ot United States Regulars under the imme- 
diate command of Ov.n. \ oung marched at 5.45 a. m., taking 
the valley road to th(; fight. At 7.30 a. m. the troops were 
massed in an open glade, and Capt. Mills, ot Gen. Wheeler's 
staff, with a i)atrol of two men advanced and discovered the 
enemy located as the Culjan scouts had determined, at a point 
known as Las Guasimas, pr(jbabl\' the site ot a plantation called 
from a common Cuban tre(', the guasima, that abounds in the 
immediate vicinity. The Hotchkiss battery of mountain guns, 
which accompanied the right column, was j^laced in position in 
concealnient about nine hundred Nards from the- enemy, and 
Bell's scpiatlron of white regulars were deplo)'ecl with Xorvell's 
sfpiadrf)n of colored troops in support. On disccjvering the 
enemy, Gen. Young =^' sent a Cuban guide to warn Col. Wood, 
and knowing that his column had a more: ditticult route and 
would recpiire a longer time to reach the position, he delayed 
the attack in order that both llanks might go into action simul- 
taneously. At this time (icn. Wheeler arrived, and having 

* Official report to Maj.-(jen. Wheeler. 



ai)pr{)\ctl \'()iiiil; s ciisposiiicii ot l\\r iroops Icll to him th<- coii- 
(liKt of the att.iir. 

Alioiil ciL^hl o'clock till- attack was ordcrcJ, the ti.L;Ht 
beoriniiin^' with the on(;-|)()iin(,l 1 lotchkiss i;uiis. '1 h<- Spaniards 
rcspoiulcd at once, firing- here, as th<-y did at San jiian. li\' 
volleys executed in almost i)ciiect time, as if iL;i\en on parade. 
The ijiToimd over which the column ad\anccd was a thick junt^de 
of tropical growth i)lantetl with wire fences, unseen until 
encountered. lmmecHat<d\- in front of ( Icn. \ onus's Icit rose 
the entrenched j^^'cipitous heights of the ridge. Headway was 
so difficult that advance- and suj)port became merged and moved 
forward und<r a continuous xolleydlring, suppltMiiented by that 
of two rapiil tiring guns.'^" 

W'r turn now to the left wing, d'hc Rough I\id<-rs left the 
seacoasi at 5.40 a. m. and began to climb the steep liill which 
overlooks Siboney, up which leads the mountain trail to San- 
tiago. Many of the men, footsore and wear)- from their march 
of the preceding tla\', most of them being more at home 
a-horseback than atoot, found the pass up the hill Ncry hard to 
travel. Sonu; dropped their blanket-rolls, and some tell out ot 
line, with tlie result that the regiment went into action with less 
th<in tiv(.' hundretl uk n.-r It seemed necessary thus to torce 
the march in order that C"ol. WOod might get his command iiUo 
action siiuultaneously with the Regulars. As it wa^-. the latter 
struck the enemy before the Rough Rich-rs hail got into position. 
On reaching the top of the table land or mesa, an advanct? 
guard was thrown out and e\<-r\- precaution taken against sur- 
prise, as it was known that the enemy was just ahead in torce. 
I'he character of the countr\ is such that reconnoitering was 

* Official repoit of (it-n. S. 1!. M. Youn>j. 

t Col. Roosevelt, 'The Rough Riders,'" Strihntr's Magazine, M.iicli, 1S99. 



22-^ miartial Graves 

difficult, as the dense growth of underbrush renders rapid 
movement of flanking parties well-nigh impossible. 

The table land is diversified with glades or rounded hills, 
which give good vantage ground tor distant views. Col. 
Roosevelt notes the beauty of the tropical forests, and speaks 
of the bird notes that filled the trees, the cooing of doves, '^' and 
the call of the great brush cuckoo. f The latter notes, however, 
as the Americans approached the Spanish lines, ceased to come 
from the birds whistling in the trees, and proceeded from the 
lips of Spanish guerillas, who imitated bird calls with great 
success and had arranged a series of signals therefrom. 

At 7.10 a. m. the videttes discovered signs of the enemy. 
The command was halted and the troops deployed to the right 
and left in open skirmish order, and were directed to advance 
carefully. Almost immediately the firing began, and its extent 
on both flanks indicated heavy opposing force. Two additional 
troops were deployed on the right and left, leaving three troops 
in reserve. It soon appeared that the Spanish lines were over- 
lapping the Americans on both lianks, and two of the reserve 
troops were deployed, one on the right and one on the left, 
thus equalizing the length of the opposing lines. The firing- 
had now become heavy, much of it at short range, and it was 
at this time that Captain Capron and Sergeant Hamilton Fish, 
who were in advance, were killed. A small blockhouse on 
the left was captured and the enemy driven from position. 

Meantime the Spaniards had taken a new position about 
one thousand )'ards in length, and not mor(* than three hundred 
yards in front of the Rough Riders. Their firing \vas severe, 
and here many officers and men were wounded. But the 
advance was continued in good order, and the Spanish line was 

* Zenaida zenaida. f Saurothera merlini. 




III.. 124. 

Sketch Map slunviiig fi'-'i of biiltlc of Las Guasitinis and location of gia-.es of the faiUn. 
15 2iS 



--6 nrxartial Graves 

steadily forced back. A heavy fire from the ridee on the rioht 
enfiladed the American line. The Spaniards were in small rock 
forts along- the entire length of the ridg-e, and were supported 
by two guns. Col. Wood having cleared his right Hank paid 
some attention to the enemy on the ridge, upon which he cen- 
trtxl the tire of two troops. This, in connection with the assault 
made by the regular cavalry, compelled the evacuation of this 
end of the works, which the Spaniards soon abandoned along 
the entire length of the ridge and the fianking hills. Masses 
of the enemy were seen to retreat rapidly, carrying litters of 
wounded men. At this time Col. Wood moved out his detached 
troops to the left to take the right of the Spanish line in fiank. 
I his movement was successfully accomplished, and as soon as 
the troops gained position, the order was given, " Cease firing 
and advance." The men moved forward within three hundred 
yards ot the enemy and opened a heavy fire under which the 
Spaniards broke and retreated rapidly. Col. Wood advanced 
to their abandoned position and halted, and established connec- 
tion on his right with the regular troops who had successfully 
carried the ridge before them. Thus, the Americans were in 
complete possession of the entire Spanish posidon while the 
Spaniards were in full retreat toward Santiago. 

General Wheeler's official report of the losses is as 
follows : First United States Volunteer Infantry, five hundred 
strong, eight killed, thirty-four wounded, a loss of 8.4 per cent. 
First Regular Cavalry, two hundred and forty-four strong, seven 
killed, eight wounded, a loss of 6. i per cent. Tenth Regular 
Cavalry, two hundred strong, one killed, ten wounded ; a loss 
of 5-5 pGi" cent. It thus apjjears that in proportion to the num- 
ber engaged the loss in killed of the First Regular Cavalry 
(white) was nearly twice as great as that of the Rough Riders 



TLbc JFicl^ ot XiU^ Oua-?ima5 -'-7 

and more than scxcn times as ^^rcat as that of tlic Tciuh Cav- 
alry. I lie [)r()ii()rti()n ot wounded anions; the I\oiiL;h Ixidcrs 
was greater than in the other two regiments cngai^t-d. The loss 
in killed of the scjuadron of the ienth Regiment was much less 
than in the others : hut ilic i)roportion of wounded was<^reaier 
than that of lh(; hirst C"a\-.ih-\-. 

1 here is some ditluuhy in asccrtainiiiij;- correctly the num- 
ber of Spanish troops en^aeed in the battle of Las Guasimas 
and also the loss sustained. Lieutenant lose Miiller \- 'I"ejerio'=' 
yives the lollowinL; account: "C)n the 221! of lune l)ai(iuiri 
aiul Sii)()ne\- were bombarded b\- the American ships. At the 
same time the soldiers of the encm\- ajjpearcd at the former 
place. As the force ij^uardin^ it could not cope with the shi|)s, 
it retreated to Firmeza, a welbfortitled |)osition l\in,L^ somewhat 
to tile northeast ol .Sibonew There ('icneral Rubin received 
orders to proceed with his cohnnn and with the wliole force in 
the mineral rcqion to the heights of Sexilla before daybreak, 
where they were to take positions in three echelons, the toi-(Miiost 
one, under Commandei- AKani/, tormed ot the three companies 
ot Puerto Rico and one mobihzed compaiu'. (hi the 2 :,^\ this 
echelon alone checked the enemy's advance in the morning- and 
again in the evening, the echelon having been re-enforced by 
one compan\' from San l^'ernando. half engineers, and two guns. 
When the; battle was o\ci' the torc(;s withdrew to their tornier 
positions, the echelon remaining on the same site. " 1 his 
account, ol course, reters to the skirmishing with the Cuban 
contingent on the; da\ preceding the IjattU; in which live com- 
panies are said to lia\e been engaged, or belwc^en hve and six 
hundred men. 

At daybreak on the 24th (Lieut. Miiller continues) the 

* " Batllfs and Capitulations of Santingo de Cut a," p. ". 



228 /IDavtial Grave? 

echelon was re-enforced b\' two companies from 1 alavero, and 
not only resisted a strong- attack of the enemy, but also forced 
the latter to retreat. These two additional companies would 
make the Spanish force about ei^ht hundred. In spite of their 
advantage, the "victors" received orders to withdraw, being- 
moved thereto l)y the alleged fact that the Americans were 
approaching Castle Morro by rail, thus involving danger of 
being taken on both flanks and surrounded. The Spanish 
official report of the fight declares that the Americans were 
repulsed, losing many men, and that the loss on the Spanish 
side was only seven dead, with two officers and two privates 
seriously and one officer and two privates slightl)' wounded. 

Gen. Wheeler"-' reports a conversation with Gen. Toral on 
tlu,' l)attle of June 24th at Las Guasimas. The Spanish com- 
manded" said that less than two thousand of the Spanish troops 
were en^aoed, explainino-, "You thought we had more men 
because our line was so long." Toral also said that up to the 
evening of June 24th, the entire Spanish loss was two hundred 
and sixty-five men, about two hundred and fifty feeing the casual- 
ties at Las (iuasimas. It was j)erhaps on the ground of this state- 
ment that Gen. Wheeler, in his farewell address to the Cavalry 
Division issued at Camp W^ikofff includes among the achieve- 
ments of his gallant troops that they marched on foot fourteen 
miles, and earl)- in the morning of lune 24th attacked and 
defeated double their number of regular Sj)anish soldiers under 
Lieut. -Gen. Linares. It was reported by the Cuban scouts that 
the Spanish Commander-in-chief was present at the Guasimas 
engageuKMit ; but this is in doubt. At all events it is maiiifest 
that at the least ('stimatc-, the Si)aniarcls had a force ecjual to and 
probably doubh^ that of the Americans, well entrenched in a 

■-■'■" The Santiago C'amiaign,'' p, l_:;4. f //>/,/., p. 22(). 



Che jficl^ ot XcU^ OiKii:>iinao --•• 

comniaiulin^- posiiion. ami proNided wiili arliilcry aiul Mauser 
rifles. L'ntler ordinaiA- ciri-unistanccs this should hav<: made il 
impossible for Cien. \'oun- s ln-i^adc lo dri\c ihem troui iheir 
xantai^c ground. 1 lad ihis point, commanding the pass to 
Santiago, been dctendcd as stubbornly as Cancy, the conse- 
cpKMices to the American army would have been very serious. 

Perhaps we ma\- accejit ( ien. loral's statements of ihe 
Spanish losses as 250 in all killed and woundi-d ; although 
commanding officers, as the writer hai)i)ens to know, are not 
likely to carry such deiails in du-ir memories with accuracy. 
The American burial parlies speak of having found at least 
f )rt\- or fifty Spanish dead upon the field. This is a matter ot 
small conse([uence, however, the imi)ortant point being that the 
commanding position was won and tlie enemy compelled to 
retreat. UndoubtedU, the success at Las Guasimas did much 
to raise the spirits of the American soldiers, and strengthen 
their confidence in their ability successfully to dislodge the 
Spaniards from the entrenchments around Santiago. In a cor- 
responding degree, as afterward ai)peared, the Spanish trooi)S 
were disheartenetl by their first experience ot American 
methoils and American \alor. ( )f most \alue was the tact that 
the enemy was dislodged from a strong position which abso- 
Ititely commanded the American ajiproach to Santiago, before 
he had time to make it imi)regnal)le. as h«- m.iy well have 
intended to do. In falling back io the less defensible position on 
the San luan 1 tills he probal)ly made the .American victory easic-r 
and less costl\-. flowexer. this is not the opinion held by many 
of the officers of the I^fth Corps, particularly just after the 
battle. 

There has been much army gossip, if one may use the 
phrase, over the action at Las Gua.^imas. and opinions have 



230 /IDartial Graves 

reached throuo-h a wide ranoe of diveroence as to the merits of 
the affair from a technical standpoint. No difference could 
obtain as to the courage and devotion to duty shown by the 
rank and file on the battle line. The story goes that Gen. 
Lawton was highly indignant that inasmuch as the front of the 
line had been assigned to him on the advance into the enemy's 
countr\'. Gen. Wheeler should have pushed ahead and, so to 
speak, "jumped his claim." It was currently believed and 
declared that he had strongly expressed to the venerable chief 
of the Cavalry Division the opinion that all the men lost in the 
fight were slain in disobedience of orders, were needlessly and 
wTongfully sacrificed, and their killing was little better than 
military murder. Whether this be true or not, certainly there 
was a decided feeling for a while, especially in ofiicial circles, 
that the fight was premature ; that it seriously disarranged Gen. 
Shafter's plans for the investment of .Santiago, and did more 
harm than good. It is certain that Gen. Shafter on June 25th, the 
day following the battle, expressed to Gen. Wheeler his pleasure 
over the result of the Las Guasimas engagement, but directed 
him " not to try any forward moxements until further orders."'^' 
On the morning of June 30th (ien. Shafter called a con- 
ference of the division commanders in order to communicate to 
them his plans. Many believed that there was a close connec- 
tion between the action of Gen. Wheeler in the Las Guasimas 
affair, and the fact that at this conference Gen. .Sumner, a brigade 
commander, was called instead of the cavalry chief himself, 
who was not informed of the conference. The reason assigned 
at the time and given by Lieut. -Col. Miley is that Gen. Wheeler 
was sick in his tent with fever, and his surgeon had advised 
against informing him of tht? proposed battle the next day.f 

* Miley " In C"ul)a with Sliafler," p. 89. f Miley, Ihiii, p. 102. 



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231 



lU)wc:vcr, (an. WUrvUv'^ naiiK^xsas not en ihc sick n-port. 
and the next dav on luarin- the noise ^f ilic cn-a-cmrnt at 
San liian. he ni'oi,ni..l, piish.-.l m th.- troni. and l.<-lorc one 
o'clock in thcattL'rn.M.n, l.i.ut. C<.1 Mil. y says, assum.-d com- 
mand of his division, which Sumner had tou-ht with (hstin 
cruish.'d success. Thcrc seems to kc a .liscrrpancy kctween 
Cok Mih^y's statement and Cen. Wheeler's account of his part 
in the moi-nine's movements. - it would seem from the latter 
that Wheeler was in command much sooner than one o'clock in 

the afternoon. 

Some have found a furthc-r indication oi the prc-valin.L^ 
feeling against the hasty advance of the cavalrymen at 
Guasimas^ in the fact that the dynamit<- -un which ( .<-n. 
Wheeler ordered up and which he ha.l confidently exp<'cte.l. 
and whose non-arrival greatly disappointed himv was hel.l hack 
by an oftu-er of Ccn. I.awton's slatf, presumakly m ord<-r lo 
pi-event the cavalry division fn.m krin.L^in- "U a pr.-matuiv 
engagement. Still further, it is held a^ indicative of the current 
fetdimr that after the batde (ien. N'oung was repoi't'-d to have 
said t'o (ien. Wheeler: "If 1 had l.-t this battle ami l.ve.l 
throu-h it, vou xNould have had my resignation." Il seems a 
forced interpretation of this remark, supposing it had been 
made, to infer that (ien. Young cpiite understood that the 
chances taken in pushing forward his brigade and .-ngagmg the 
enemy on June :4th. were of such a character that they cuUl 
only be justified bv an unciuestioned success. 

Many incidents have luM-n told to illustrat.' the character 
and conduct of our troops on this occasion, and other incidents, 
even more interesting and c haracteristic. could be told it one 

*.'Mvst.lf cflkers devoted themselves U. the cavalry divisioti which in forming that 
n.on.ing iLlheen ten^rorarily under the control of '^cn. S. S. Sumner. "-Wheeled Sant.aR.. 
Campaign," p. 43- t >'''■"''. P- '"• 



232 /IDavtial Graves 

could tincl the persons who know them. Some have drifted 
into the public prints, and appeared in magazines and books, a 
few of which I venture to condense or to quote, not because 
they exhibit the highest standard of valor and endurance, but 
because they have become knowai to me, and really are typical 
of the general behavior of the American soldier, not only in 
the fight at Las Guasimas but in all the engagements of the 
Spanish-American War. 

" Give me your gun a minute!" said Capt. Capron just 
after Sergeant Fish had received his death wound. His troop 
seemed to be fighting against terrible odds, and he evidently 
wished to support the men by an example of untliniching cour- 
age on his own part. Sergeant Bell handed his commander his 
own piece and Capt. Capron, kneeling down, deliberately aimed 
and fired two shots in quick succession. At each discharge a 
S|)aniard was seen to fall. Sergeant Bell, in the meantime, 
picked up a rifie which a dead comrade had dropped, and kneel- 
ing beside his Captain joined in the firing. In a few moments 
Capt, Capron fell mortally wounded. He gave Bell a parting 
message to his wife and one to his father. "Good-bye," he 
said, as cheerfully as though he w^ere bidding him " good-night," 
and was borne away dying. They buried him at Siboney by the 
sea'-' (Fig. 125, p. 20). 

Mr. Richard Harding Davis who was present as a war cor- 
respondent, but took a gallant part in the fighting, describes the 
death of Capt. Capron in the arms of one of the brave sur- 
geons of the recriment.t ()i"» the narrow trail over which the 
Rough Riders had advanced he saw Capt. Capron wath his body 
propped against Surgeon Church's knee, and with his head 

* Charles Morris, " The War willi Sj)ain."' 

t" The Culian and l'ort(j Kican Campai<;n," p. 155- 



fallen on his shoulder. C"ai)r()n was al\\a\s a haiuls(.)nu,-. sol- 
dierly lookin- man ; sonic said thai he was lh<- most soldierly 
lookin- of any of die xoimil; offucrs in the army, and death had 
oi\eii him a ijreat iliL-nitx- and nobleness. 1 le was only twenty- 
eig-ht years old. the a^e when life has but w(-ll beoun. yet he 
restetl his head on the surL^con's shoulder lik(! a man who knew 
he was already throu-h with il, and that, lliou-h lh<-y mi-hi 
l)eck and mend at his body, he had received his final orders. 
Mis breast and dioulders were bare, and as tlu; suri^eon cut the 
tunic from him the si-htof his ^reat chest, and the skin as white 
as a .L^irl's, and the black optMi wound against it, made the yel- 
low stripes and the brass insignia of rank seem siranL^'ely mean 
anil tawdry. 

iMfty yards farther on. arountl a turn in the trail, behind a 
rock, a bo\- was h'in.L^' with a l)ullet wound betwetMi his eyes. 
1 lis chest was hc^avin^- with short, hoarse noises due to some 
muscular action, f )r he was entirtdy divMl. Mr. 1 >avis lilted him 
and gave him some water, but it would not pass through his 
fi.xed teeth. In the pocket of his blouse was a New Testament 
with the nauK' " b'ielder Dawson, Mo.".=-- scribl)led in it m pen- 
cil. While the correspondent was writing it down for ideiititi- 
cation. a boy as young as the dead approached h'om the- trail. 

'• It is no use," he said ; "the surgeon has seen him. lb- 
says he is just the same as dead. He is my bunkie. \\ e only 
met two weeks ago at San Antonio ; but li<- and ir.e got to b<- 
such good friends. Hut there's nothing I can do now'" He 
threw himself down on the rock besitle his "Ininkie." who was 
still breathing with that hoarse rattle, and Mr. ^)avis left them, 
the one who had been spared looking down helplessly with the 
tears creei)ing across his cheeks. 

*TiUlen W. I ).-\\vson is the n.nnic on llie otlicial list. 



234 nilartial Graves 

Col. Roosevelt =^= speaks of the manner of Sergt. Russell's 
death. Bein^' out of touch with one of the wuigs of the bat- 
talion which he was commanding, he sent Sergt. Russell, a 
New Yorker, with Troopers Greenway and Rowland, into the 
valley to discover the locality of the wing. In obeying the 
conuuand the three men were exposed to a severe tire, and 
Russell was killed. He was a Sergeant in G Troop, but had 
been a Colonel on the Staff of the Governor of his State. 

The other two men returned and reported the position of 
the missing troops and resumed their places on the firing line. 
After a while Col. Roosevelt noticed blood oozing from the side 
of one of them named Rowland, and discovered that he had 
been shot, although seeming to take no notice of the fact. The 
Avound was only a slight one ! he said. But as a rib had been 
broken, he was ordered to the hospital in the rear. After some 
grumbling he went, but fifteen minutes later was back on the 
firing line, saying he could not find the hospital. Among the 
wounded who afterward w^alked to the temporary hospital at 
Siboney was this trooper Rowland. There the doctors exam- 
ined him, and decreed that his wound was so serious that he 
must go back to the States. After nightfall Rowland escaped 
through the hospital windows and made his way back to camp 
with his rifie and pack, although every movement must have 
caused him great pain. After such an exhibition of grit, his 
officers concluded that he was entitled to sta)^ with "the boys." 
He never left them for a day, and again distinguishetl himself 
in the fight at San Juan. 

Harry Heffner, of (i drooj^, was mortally woimded 
through the hips, and fell without uttering a sound. Two ot 
his companions dragged him bcliind a tree, where he propped 

* " 1 he Koul;1i Riders," S(ri/»tdi\s, Marcli, 1899. 



himself up aiul asktd lo \h- L^ixcn his laiUccn aiul his rillc. 
which I'ol. Roosevrh handed lo him. lie lh<-n ai^aiii l)CL;an 
to shoot, and conliniic(l loachn^- and tiring; until the liiK- mo\cd 
tbrwartl and left him alone, dyini^- in the j^iouniy shade. When 
his comrades found him. after the I'li^ht, lie was dead. 

The death of Sert^eant I lamilion hish. which was so widely 
and keenK' regretted 1)\- his conntr\mcn. as one ot the sad- 
dest incidents of the war is touchin_L;l\- reterred to hy Mr. 
Richard 1 lai'din- I )avis. i h- was we-ll in ad\ane<- ol the 
farthest |)oiiU to which Ca])ron's troop had moved Ix-iore it had 
deployed to the left. 1 le was rumiinu; forward leelin- contident 
that he must he close upon our men when he saw. lar in 
advance, the hodx' of a ser^-eant blocking; the trail and stretched 
at hill l(,-nL;th across it. Its position was a hundred yards in 
acKance ot" that of any others : it was ai)parentl\- the hotly ol 
the th'st man killed. .\li<r dc, iih ih-- hodies ot some m«-n 
seem to shrink almost instantly within themseKcs : the\ bc-comc- 
limp and shapeh^ss. and their uniforms han^- upon them 
strangely. I'tit this man, who was a .^iant in Hie, remained a 
oiant in death. 1 lis \cr\- attitude was one ot attack. 1 li^ lists 
were clinched, his jaw set, and his eyes, which were still open, 
seemed tkxed with resoKc. lie was dead, but he was not 
defeated. "(iod i^ives," was the motto on the watch taken 
from his blouse: and (iod could not haxc L;i\-en him a nobler 
end; to die, in die f)retVont of the first fii^i.t ot the war. 
quickly. painlessK', with a bullet throuu^h lh<- h<'art, with his 
rei^iment behind him and lacing the enemic-s ol his countrw^^' 

One of the military heroes of the medical staff" has been 
so oraphic.dlv described in the action at Las Ciuasimas by Mr. 
Richard llardin-- Davis that 1 venture to tpiote his lani^uai^e : 

* " Ihe Cuban and I'orto Kicati Caniiiai^ii.' " p. iju. 



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" When (i Troop passed on across the trail to the left I stopped 
at the place where the column had first halted. It had been 
converted into a dressing station, and the wounded of G Troop 
were left there in the care of the hospital stewards. A tall 
youno- man with a red cross on his arm was just coming- back 
up the trail. His head was bent, and by some surgeon's trick 
he was advancing rapidl\- with great strides, and at the same 
time carrying a wounded man much lieavier than himself across 
liis shoulders. As I stepped out of the trail he raised his head 
and smiled and nodded, and left me wondering where I had 
seen him before, smiling in the same cheery, confident way and 
moving in the same position. I knew it could not have been 
under the same conditions, and yet he was certainly associated 
with another time of excitement and rush and heat. And then 
I remembered him ! He had been covered with blood and dirt 
and perspiration as he was now, only then he wore a canvas 
jacket, and the man he carried on his shoulders was trying to 
hold him back from a whitewashed line. I recognized the young 
doctor with the blood bathing his breeches as " Bob" Churchy 
of Princeton. That was only one of four badly wounded men 
he carried on his shoulders that day over a halt-mile of trail that 
stretched from the firing-line back to the dressing station under 
an unceasing tire. As the senior surgeon was absent he had 
chief responsibility that day for all the w^ounded, and that so 
few of them died is greatly due to this young man who went 
down into the firing-line and pulled them from it, and bore them 
out ot danger. '•' 

A touching incident happened at\er the tight in the impro- 
vised open-air hospital where the wounded were lying. They 
did not groan and tht-y made no complaint, but tried to help 

* "The Cuban and I'oito Rican ('anijjaigns," p. 151. 



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one anollitT. ( )nc ot tht-m l)C!^;iii to hum " M\' LOiiiUry. " 1 is 
ot I lice," and one li\' one the others j()iiic(l in the choi'iis. whicli 
swelled out in tlu: tlark woods where the \ ictoi's la\- in the caiiip 
beside their ck^ad. 

Col. Roosexelt pays a hi^^h li-ihutc to the coarai^c oi 
Kiehard Hardin^' l)a\is, the son ot 1.. Tlai-hc 1 >a\ is. cdiior ot 
the PhiladclpJiia Lcdocr. It was he who L^axc the Roiij^h 
Riders the tlrst opportunitx' to shoot hack with cttcii. lie 
l)eha\(.'d jjrecisely like the officers. Ix-ini; on the «xlrcnic Iront 
ot' the line and taking- v\v\-\ opportunity to siud\- with L^dasses 
the L^rountl where tile Spaniards were supposed to be. Roose- 
velt had tried volle\- liiiiiL; as a feeler tor th,e .Si)anish jjosition 
without success, and was studying- the jiuiL^le-covered 
mountain with his L^lasses, when 1 )a\is suddenly exciainu-il : 

" There the\- ari', Colonel ' Look o\ci- ihere. 1 can see 
their hats near that glade." lie pointed across the. valle\- to 
the regiment's right. 

Roosevelt gave; a scpiad of his sharpshooters the range 
of the fire, and in a little while had the satisfaction of seeing 
the Spaniards spring out of cover and run to another conceal- 
ment. Soon the entire hne began (piick tnang. evidently with 
good eftect, for the Sj^aniards retreated to the left into the 
jungle. 

Along \\ith the above we ma\- mention tin- heroism ot 
Edward Marshall, a correspondent of the AVre )'ork yournaL 
which commanck^d the nation's attention at the tiiiK?. He was 
shot througli the sj)ine. a painful woiuid, which was su|)posccl 
to be fatal. lie made no complaint, and during his jx-riods 
of consciousness, dictated the stor\ of the fight. The annals 
of letters furnish kw incidents v)f lldelity to dul\- more 
striking than this, ami the country was glad to learn that this 



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gallant writer was not left to sleep beneath the royal palms of 
Cul)a. but sufficiently recovered from his wound to return home. 

Mr. lohn b^ox. who served as a war correspondent during 
the war. sent home a graphic story of the scenes following the 
fight and the burial of the dead. He climbed the bank of a 
little creek and stopped, with a start, in the road on the other 
side. To the right on a sloping bank lay eight gray shapes 
muffled from head to foot. He thought of the men he had 
seen asleep on the deck of the transport at dawn. Only, these 
were rigid, and he would have known that all of them were in 
their last sleep but one, who lay with his left knee bent and 
upright, his left elbow thrust from the l)lanket, and his hand 
on his heart. He slept like a child. 

Beyond was the camp of the regulars who had taken part 
in the fight. On one side stood Gen. Young, who himself had 
aimed a Hotchkiss gun, during the acdon, covered with grime 
and sweat, and with the passion of battle not quite gone from 
his eyes. Across the road soldiers were digging one long 
grave. Half a mile further, on the top of the fortified ridge 
and on a grassy, sunlit knoll was the camp of the Riders, just 
beyond the riile pits from wdiich they had driven the Spaniards. 
Under a tree, to the right, lay another row of muffled shapes. 
A quarter of a mile away was the hospital toward which the 
writer walked with Col. Wood. The path, narrow, thickly 
shaded, and dappled with sunshine, ran along the ridge through 
th(' battlefield, and was pretty, peaceful and romantic. Here 
and there the tall grass at the wayside was pressed fiat where 
a wounded man had lain. In one place the grass was matted 
and dark red ; nearby was a blood-stained hat marked with the 
initials " E. L.,"' probably belonging to P^dward Leggett, of 
Troop A. Here was the spot where Hamilton Fish fell, the 



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2im 



first \iclini ot the \\^\\[ : there hnuc ndiiiiil^ Capron was killed. 
A pcissin^- soldiei' liared his lelt arm and showed three places 
between his wrist and elbow where the skin had been blistered 
Iw three separate bullets as he lay in front of (^i])ron alter the 




I-I.i. I 2'. 

The grai'e of Rough Riders at Lns C nasi mas. 
From Scribucr's Migazinc, Copyright, 1S99, Chas. Scribner's Sons. 



240 nnartial (Braves 

latter fell. Farther on lay a dead Spaniard with covered face. 
A buzzard flapped from the tree above him. Beyond was the 
open-air hospital, where were two more rioid human fig-ures, 
and where the wounded lay. 

That nii^ht there was a clear sky, a (|uarter-moon and an 
enveloping- mist of stars, but little sleep for any, and but rest- 
less, battle-haunted sleep for all. Next morning followed the 
burial. Capt. Capron was carried back to the coast and buried 
at Siboney. The other fallen heroes were placed side by side 
in one broad trench with their feet to the east. In the bottom 
ot the grave was laid a layer of long, thick, green leaves of 
guinea grass, and over the brave fellows were piled plumes of 
the royal palm as long as the grave. At the head of the trench 
stood Chaplain Brown ; around it were the comrades of the 
dead ; along the road straggled a band of patient, ragged 
Cubans ; and approaching from Santiago a band of starving 
wonien and children for whom the soldiers gave their lives. 
" Nearer, my Ciod, to Thee," sang the soldiers.'-' And the 
tragedy of Las Guasimas was done. 

Col. Roosevelt's account of the obsequies is brief but very 
touchinof : " Next mornin<j- we buried seven dead Rouo:h Riders 
in a grave on the summit of the trail, Chaplain Brown reading 
the solemn burial service of the Episcopalians, while the men 
stood around witli barc^d heads and joined in singing " Rock of 
Ages." \^ast numbers of vultures were wheeling round and 
round in great circles through the blue sky overhead. There 
could be no more honorable burial than that of these men in a 
common grave — Indian and cowboy, miner, packer and college 
athlete — the man of unknown ancestry from the lonely Western 
plains, and the man who carried on his watch the crests of the 

* Jlarpcr's Weekly, July 30, IcSqS. 



Zbc J^icl^ ot %as Omv^mae -'^i 

I laiiiillons ;iik1 the l-'ishcs, one in iIk; \v;i\' they had ind (K-atli. 
just as tliirinL^- lite lhc\' had l)ccn oik- in lin-ii' dai'iiiL; and liirir 
l())-ak_\-.'"'== 

List of Killed at Las Guasimas. 

Gen. \\ hcch-r. in his "Santiago Canipaiu;!!, " reports in 
full the names ot those who wei'e killed in the engagement cjf 
fune 24. 1S9S. at Guasimas. Several errors ap|)ear in this 
report, whicli are corrected in the tollowmL; list. I he name 
ot Corporal Ale.\and(;r Slemere should he Corporal Alexander 
Llennoc. I he name ot Pri\ate W illiam I". lr\ine should he 
William f. Krwin. .Serjeant Mar\in Russell, shouKl be Marcus 
I). Russell. l'ri\ate Stark, on Gen. W heeler's list, is Stork on 
the official list. 

Xo. 24^;. I*ri\ate Jesse K. Stork, IVoop A. i st rnileil 
States Ca\alry. Hied [une 24th, 1S9S. 

No. 244. rri\ate ( )tto Krupp, I'roop I). 1st I'nited States 
Caxalry. Hied June 24th, iSgS. I am not |)Ositive as to tlie 
order ot the numhei's ot I'rixates .Stork and Riaipp, Xos. 24; 
and 244 belong- to diese two nuMi, but the proper assi^iiment 
thereof on the mound 1 am not able to determine, and ha\e 
given the order as 1 Ix-liexc ii to be. 

Xo. 245. Corporal William 1.. White. rroo[) 11, loth I'nited 
States Cavalry. 1 )ied lune 24th, l,V^S. 

No. 246. Private Ciustav A. Kolbe, Troop K. 1 st I'nited 
States Cavalry. Died June 24th, iSc^S. 

No. 247. I'rixate Peter H. Di.x. Troop K. i st I'nited .States 
Ca\alry. Died bi'ie 24th, 1S9S. 

No. 248. Prixate [ack Berlin. Troop K. 1st I'nited .States 
Cavalry. Died June 24th, 1898. 

* Scribner s Mm^iitiiu, March, iSoo, p. 276. 
16 -^ . ^^. 1 / 



242 /iDartial Graces 

Xo, 249. Private Emil ])jork, Troop K, ist United States 
Cavalry. Died [une 24th, 1S9S. 

No, 250. Corporal Alexander Llennoc. Troop K, ist United 
States Cavalry. Died fune 24th, 189S. 

No. 251. Private Edmond Prunil, Battery F, 2d United 
States Artillery. He ^vas not in the battle but died luly 
15th. 1898. 

No. 252. Captain Allyn K. Capron, Troop L, ist United 
States X'olunteer Cavalry. Died [une 24th, 1898. Capt. 
Capron was buried at Siboney and thence removed to the 
United States. 

No. 253. Private Edward Leggett (or Liggett), Troop A, 
1st United States V^olunteer Cavalry. Died June 24th, 1898. 

No. 254. Corporal George H. Dougherty (or Doherty), 
Troop A, ist United States V^olunteer Cavalry. Died June 
24th, 1898. 

No. 255. Private William J, Erwin, Troop F, ist United 
States Volunteer Cavalry. Died June 24th, 1898. 

No. 256. Sergeant Marcus D. Russell, Troop G, ist United 
States Volunteer Cavalry. Died June 24th, 1898. 

No. 257. I'rivate Harry H^effner, Troop G, ist United 
.States V^olunteer Cavalry. Died June 24th, 1898. 

No. 258. Sergeant Hamilton Pish, jr.. Troop L, ist United 
States \\)lunteer Cavalry.' Died June 24th. 1898. 

No. 259. Private Tilden \V. Dawson, Troop L, ist United 
States Volunteer Cavalry. Died June 24th, 1898. 



Chapter IX 
The Fallen Heroes of the Hospital 



X she went at the door, and gazing from end 

to end, 
" Many and h)\v are the pallets, but each is the 

place of a friend. " 
Up she pass'd through the wards, and stood 

at a young man's bed ; 
Bloody the band on his brow, and li\ id the 

droop of his head. 
"Art thou a Lombard, my brother? Happy art 

thou," she cried, 
And smiled like Italy on him : he dream'd in 

her face and died. 

■3f TT Vf * * * 

On she pass'd to a Frenchman, his arm carried 

off by a ball : 
Kneeling, * * " < > more than my brother i 

how shall I thank thee for all ? 
"Each of the heroes around us has fought for 

his land and line, 
But thou hast fought for a stranger, in hate of 

a wrong not thine. 
" Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be 

dispossess'd : 
But blessed are those among nations who dare 

to be strong for the rest I " 

Elizabeth Barrett P>ro\vxing. 



The Fallen Heroes of the Hospital 




111 a 



X iii'litar\- life tli<- diilx of cariii)^- for lh«' sick ami 
wouiuiccl is cuiiiniiilctl to snrL^^coiis. ol uhoin three 
nia\ 1)6 assigned to r\rvy rcL^inicnt. A bri^i^ade 
surL^t'cii has chai'L^c <''! the general h()S|)iial service 
)riL;ade ; a di\ ision surij^eon directs like service for a 
division, and a surgeon-chief, attached to the staff of the com- 
manding gcnci-al, has oversight o\ all. A vast amount of 
clerical work, in the matlrr ot rc(]uisiii()ns. i-cports. etc.. is con- 
nected vilh these various departments, all ol which is ir.ore or 
less necessary in order to keep an accurate- knowledge ol sujjply 
and demand, and to k(M'p trace of the various j)arties treated. 
of the sick, wounded and dead. 

In connection with the surgeon's work is an organization 
known as a hospital corps, of enlisted men trained for their 
particular dutw who are under the immediate charge ol non 
commissioned ofticers known as hospital stewards and assistant 
stewards. Some of these, especially in the regular service, are 
men of experience and efficiency: hut the vast amount ot 
additional work suddenly thrown upon the Medical l)ei)artment 
at the outbreak of the Spanish war necessitated the dralling of 
men without experience in nursing. .Some ot these brought 
willing hearts to th(; work, and became hel])ful : others were 
worst; than worthless. 

( )n tlie eve of battle a situation is chosen lor a general 

245 



ii4() 



/iDartial Graves 



hospital, for a division or for a corps, as far back from the firing 
Vmtt as is necessary to protect both the workers and the wounded 
from injury by passing bullets. The laws of war, respected by 
all civilized nations, exempt surgeons, chajjlains and the hospital 
corps from designed assault. To insure this protection they 
are all designated l)y a red cross badge upon the left arm. and 
much confusion has resulted in public prints and in popular 
opinion from the fact that this honored badge is also worn by 




Fig. 128 Fir,. 129 

Tv]^'-. 128 — A street in General Field Hospital, Fifth ylrniy Corfs, Santiago. 
Fi£. i2g — Hospital steicarcPs office. 

voluntary red cross societies. Surgeons and hospital corps 
men are detailed to follow the troops to the firing line, keeping 
close enough, with first aid dressings and with litters, to carry the 
wounded from the field to a convenient sheltered spot, v/here 
they may receive temporary care. This is an emergency 
hospital, or dressing station. At .San luan the wounded were 
taken from the plain to a point on the ri\er near Hloody Bend, 
and were laid \\\)c,n the soft soil of the sheltered bank with their 



Utct close to the \vat(;r. a coiiiparatix cK' cool phuf, iiieasuralily 
protected troni ll\inL; bullets, 'ri-niporary dressinfrs and aiil 
haviiiL,'' been adininistered by tlie surgeons in the field anil their 
helpers, the patients were carried still further back to the 
Divisional or General Hospital to recei\e more careful and 
di'tailed ireatnient. 

Litter-men and other red-cross men, including- surL^eons 
and chaplains, in the abo\e nametl service, are necessaril\- 
e.\j)osed to danger, and it is not an uncommon thiiiL,^ for them 
to fall in the discharge of duty. .\o blame is attached, under 
sucli circumstances, tor the death of these non lombalants. as 
it is impossible tor the best iiUentioncd em ni\', bent solely upon 
putting out ot action those in the fighting ranks, to j)revent 
missiles discharged at ai^jiroaching lines from falling among 
those who ha\c come within hring distance up(»n their work of 
helpfulness. Nevertheless, the charge has been frenpiently 
made, and with such dehniteness of statement as to entitle it to 
consideration, that sharpshooters stationed in trees in tlu- rear 
and on the llanks ot the American lines did not scruple to pick 
oft surgeons, hospital workers, and e\-en the wounded larried 
by thtmi. ( )n the other hantl. Lieut. -Col. Mile\-, an aid of ( ieii. 
Shatter, who took a gallant antl conspicuous part in the .San 
juan battles, intimates that these j)ersons were struck by spent 
or tlying bulle-is,'-- and sa\s that no .Sjjanish sharpshooters were 
tound in trees. One would like to believe this to ])v. the true 
explanation ot tacts that scM-m wvy suspicious. At least one 
part ot LOl. Mile\'s statement is clearlv erroneous, tor C'ol. 
Roosevelt, in his otticial re|)ort ot ihe .San luan battle, declares 
that tlu^ guerillas in trees, dressed in green unitorms, dev«)ted 
themselves especialK' to shooting singeons, hospital assistants. 

*•' With Sh.Tfter in Cuba,"" p. u;. 



248 /IDavtial Graves 

the wounded in litters, and even burial parties. He sent out a 
detail of sharpshooters to the rear of the comniand, who killed 
thirteen. He saw two of these ouerillas shot out of trees by 
his own men. 

One can readily conceive that during- an engagement hos- 
pital workers must be not only brave but busy men. A moment 
ma\- be a matter of life or death with a wounded man. Our 
regular soldiers are taught the simplest methods of caring for 
the wounded, and are provided with " first-aid " dressings. This 
admirable precaution was the means of saving many lives. 
Every soldier was thus converted into a hospital w^orker, and 
the slightly wounded could minister to their owai wants and 
assist in saving- the lives of their comrades. Next to this, as 
has been stated, the surgeons in the field give the first relief, 
and send the wounded back to the hospital tent or to the hos- 
pital station in the immediate rear of the firing line. This is 
done as rapidly as possible, chiefly by litter bearers, although 
any sort of conveyance available is used. To the w^ounded are 
attached tags of paper backed with cloth and of various degrees 
of significance, to explain the urgency of the case. Some ot 
the wounded can walk or hobble or crawl to the stations, but 
nearly all are carried on stretchers. Some are supported by 
their comrades, but as a rule this is foi-bidden, as the fighdng 
men in a battU? have but out- duty, to move forward in obedience 
to orders, leaving the kindly work of caring for the hurt and 
the fallen to those who are especially detailed, equipped and 
fitted for the service. 

A hospital tent is simply a large wall tent and is a small 
canvas house. A permanent field hospital consists of a number 
of such tents arrang(*d in regular row^s so as to form streets. 
The central tent or a i)art thereof is occupied as an office, and 



jfallcu Ihcvoct? ot tbc fl?oi?;Mtal 



111!) 



there are set up the shcKcs or hoxes contaiiiiiiL^ necessary 
clniL;s, inslruineiUs and other inc(lical .qjpHaiKcs and conveni- 
ences. Tents must also be pro\ idcd tor the hospital stewards 
and their assistants, and for the men of the. hospital corps, as 
well as storai^^e tents and cookini;- tents A lar^e h()s])ital 
assumes tlu; proi)ortions ot a can\as \ill;iL;e. and with its 
niniu^rous workers and complicated material inxoUcs l.iri^e 
responsibility iind labor. Under ordinary circumstancc-s lh<-re 
is a vast amount ot red tape 
and rc(|uisition work which 
recpiires the offices ot a good 
clerk rather than that of a 
skillful physician. There is 
no doubt that din-ing the war 
the efficiency of the medical 
service was frecpicntU' hin- 
dered by perfunctory aiul 
needless requisitionism. 

It is the dut\- of tlic hos- 
pital authorities to keep an 
accurate register ot the 
nanies, dates of admission, 
diseases and dt^scriptions ot 
all persons admitted to tlie wards, and ot the nanv. rank. 
disease and date of death of every one who tlies within th(; 
hospital. On the battletield everything is. of course, ot a 
temi)orar\- nature, and the surgeons and men of the hosjjital 
corps do the best the\- can imder the tr\ing conditions. 
l)Ut the CioNcrnment makes such ample provision tor service 
under such emergencies, that the lack of workers, and of 
medicine and material is the result of almost uni)ardonable 




In; 130 
Ilospitji of the Fifth Iiiiinunes, on th<: Hay, 
Sinliago. 



2^)0 



/IDartial Graves 



incompetency or neglect of duty on the part of some one in 
authorit)'. 

When the cots and medical supplies for the Fifth Army 
Corps arrived on the U. S. S. Resolute, July 25th, 1898, a move- 
ment was immediately organized by Surgeon Chief Havard to 
transfer the sick to hospitals in more eligible locations. The 
principal one of these new organizations was the General Field 
Hospital. After the calentura exodus of the Fifth Corps, which 

began shortly thereafter, these 
hospitals remained to receive the 
sick who were not able to be 
moved. From time to time the 
convalescents were sent home, 
and the importance of the hos- 
pitals gradually diminished. Just 
previous to my departure on the 
transport Segiiranca, September 
1 6th, the last of these was broken 
up, and all the sick soldiers, not 
provided for in regimental hos- 
pitals, w^ere removed to quarters 
in the Spanish Military Hospital ; 
which had been left vacant by the 
repatriation of the Spanish prisoners of war. Thus the scat- 
tered remnants of the invalids and of the hospital workers of 
the gallant b'ifth Corps were assembled under the root and 
within the walls that had lately sheltered their foes. 

The First Division Hospital 

It seems proper to begin the records of the Fallen Heroes 
of our hosi)itals with that of the First Division Hospital, which 




Fig. 131 
Field Hospital o_f I-iflh U. S. Jiifaiihy 
befote occupying the Reina Mcnedcs 
Barracks. 



Jfallcn Ixn-oci? ot tbc H.^o^pital '-'')i 

fio^ured so conspiiiiniisK' in the sad allci'iiialh ot ihc halilcs ol 
Iul\' 1st. h will 1)L' r('incii"i!)(;rc(l with niiiiL;l<tl IccliiiLis ot L^rali- 
tiicU; and horror l)\' many otticcrs aiul nu.-ii ot the \aliaiu Idllh 
Ariiu' Corps. It has hern {hv subject ot tre(iiK-nt ck.-scriiJtion 
in the reports ot war toiTcspoiulcnts and in recently pul)lished 
books. It was under the charge <>t M.ijor .SurL^coii Wood, ol 
the Rei^ular AriiU'. He chose a site on the south side ot the 
road from Sibon w' to San fuan, about midway ot the two places, 
and on the north bank of the AL^uadores, a mountain stream 
which supplied the water necessary tor hospital service, it was 
betwt^en three and tour hundrcnl yards tVom Maj.-(".<-n. .Shatter's 
head(piart('rs, which were on the south side ot the road, and 
was thus directly under the eye of the Commander-in chief until 
th(^ (lav of surrender. To this point most of the wountled at 
.San luan and Cane\" were brought in course ot lime, and thence 
wer(; iranst'erred to the general hospital established in the 
neighborhood of Siboney. whence they were placed upon hos- 
pital ships or transports, as soon as their condition would permit, 
and taken to the United States. 

While in .Santiago I spoke to Major Wood about the absence 
of markers over so man\- graves of the dead in the I'irst 
Dixision Hospita.. and expressed my regret that so little pains 
had been tak(?n to secure identification. He replied that sur- 
geons ami the hosjjital corps were so o\-<M'whelmv.-d with the 
\()lume of service so suddenly ihi-own upon them, so great and 
unexpected, that it was more than they could accomplish to give 
ade(]uate care to the wounded, which was the chief tlut\- ot the 
hour. 1 here is no question, either, of the lack of adecjuate 
assistance tor the wounded, or of the heroic hdelit\- of the held 
helpers at hand. Nevertheless, it seemed, and it still strems to 
me, that one man mi-ht have been detaiU-d to the dutv ol finding 



252 /iDavtial Graves 

out the names of those who died in the hospital, and of attach- 
ing- to the body a suitable tag or tablet and placing a simple 
marker at the head of the dead. Such a precaution would have 
secured the identity of the remains. Here again we see how 
needful it is that some system should be adopted in the Medical 
Department, in conjunction with the Ouartermaster's Depart- 
ment, b\- which this duty shall not be neglected even under the 
most trying and confused conditions. It is a shocking and most 
discreditable fact that out of sixty or seventy burials in this field 
cemetery only eight are so marked as to insure identification, 
and even several of these are open to doubt. The list here 
follows : 

Xo. 260. Lieut. Joseph N. Augustine, Jr., 24th United 
States Infantry. Died July i, 1898. See Chapter Y, p. 122, 
for further reference to this gallant young officer in connection 
with his bosom friend, Lieut. Gurney. The grave was much 
sunken when seen in September, and the grass and weeds had 
grown high around it, as all the other graves. An iron-framed 
marker formed the headboard, on which were inscribed the 
name and regiment. 

Xo. 261. Private Henry J. Scheid, Company F, 71st New 
York X'olunteer Infantry. Died July 3, 1898. 

Xo. 262. Capt. James Fornance, 13th United States 
Infantry. Died fuly i, 1898. Capt. Fornance was in command 
of I'' Company, Thirteenth Infantry. He was mortally wounded 
in the charge upon Fort San Juan, July ist, and was taken 
back to the Division Hospital, where he died in thirty-six 
hours. The Rev. \\ J. Hart, Post Chaplain of the United States 
Army, with the Third Infantr)-, in the field during the battle, 
wrote me that Capt. Fornance was buried on July 3d, about 2 
p. m., with nine other soldiers in one trench. A board, with 



jfallcn txu-oci^ ot the H^oiH^ital 



2')3 



the Captain's naiiK- i^^c^il i<(l ihcrcon, was pland in the loni- 
nion nionnd dircilK oxer wlicrc h<- lay, al the south civl thcrcol. 
( )n Siin<la\-, |iil\- -ilh, there were twcntN'-lnnr in-rsuns 
buried in anotlu-r trench, aiiion^ iheni Acting Assistant SurL;<'<>n 
llarr\- W . I >antV)rth, of Milwaukei-. Wisconsin, attached to the 
Ninth C"a\ah-\-, and 1 .ieut. 

R,-ul.en S. d\,nnan. Ac- ^^^- ^ ri^^j^^!' 

cordin- to Chaplain Hart. ■^^^^, ,;<>/:-T/." '- ^' , 

there wcu'e at least lit'ty ^ ^ ^^^^^'.'^'^ -'^' -'^^- ^ ' i:>'i 
men bin-ied at this spot '"'^f^-^S^'l 
when he left the Ijospilal, '4^'-;^ 

|t,lv ^th. and nianv -oW/'MLt JHAuGUSTlN 
others were Innietl -^ '-:.-; /Tl f-^^l * .. . . ^ . 






24 



there later on. in 

Septeniherditde more ^~'^' 

than two mondis afttn- j-''«|£/.'5^*i>/ ■■ .;- 

the battle, the -rass .^.T^^jS^if^r^ 



and weeds had e rown r> ^;^ ' '.'Ikf^'^i^'J^ 
so hi>'h on and around ,. ■ -i'fe J jtnh^^ 
the cemeler\- site ■ ,!^^^W»P!, 



''P- 



that a 



s(|uad had to be ., 'S'ii*<^/c&i,l^^^ 
em^aoed to hew ' '■-^^''-'i^.^i^^^^^s^'^-. 
away th(- -rowth ^''^'■^7^'^'' 
w ilh machetes, in ' ' -'- 

order to distin- 

^iiish the L^raves 

at all. M a j o r 

1 lai'nsi m subsc- 

cpiently visited the i^^rave of Capt. I'ornance and had it rounded 

up. an.d renewed the markin-. which probably accounts tor the 




Ciaveof Lieut. Jci. N. Augustine. 



254 



/iDai'tial Graves 



GEN. SNAFTERo HEaDQUA:RTER5. 

0>c 



fact that Mr. Rhodes, when \isitin_i^- the spot to set up headboards, 
found the rrrave as shown in the chart=-= (Fig- i33)' separated 
from the common trench as thous^h its inmate had been buried 
apart. 

No. 263. Private Daniel ]\IcIntosh. Company D, 8th 
United States Infantry. Died July 2, IcSqS. 

Xo. 264. Second Lieut. Reuben S. Turman, 6th United 
States Infantry. Died July 4, 1898. Lieut. Turman received 

his death wound in the 
charee across the P)attle 
Plain, jul\' I St, in which 
his reg-iment took such 
a conspicuous part. 

No. 265. A large 
grave, containing many 
unknown dead. 

No. 266. A large 
grave, containing many 
unknown dead and the 
two following soldiers : 
Corporal Dennis War- 
tie, Company F, loth 




Cemeto'v of the First Dk\'sioit Ilosf^itiil. 

L'nited States Infantry, died July 4th, and Charles P\ Swartz, 
pri\ate, Comj^any B, ist United States Cavalry, died July 
9. 1898. 

Nos. 267-271. These are all large graves, every one con- 
tainiuL'" manv unknown dead. 



* Mo:-t of the cliaits of soldiers' burial places in the following chapter are reproduced from 
the rough plans made by_Mr. Rhodes, redrawn in the ( Hiarlermaster's Department, and fur» 
nished me by the courtesy of Cen. r.udington. The numbers have been conformed to my own 
series. 



Jfallcn fl^croci? ot the lv>i?;iital 



2;).^ 



Xo. 272. l'ri\atc l-rcdcrick 1'.. latt. Coinpain- C, 2(1 
Massachusetts X'oluntccr Infantrw I )ii(l |ul)- i.|. i SgS. 

Xc). 27;,. A lafL^c i^ravc. containiiiL;- many unknown dcail. 

U will thus be seen that most of those Iniried in the ahove 
hospital must be classed amonj^- the "unknown."' 'Hkti.' 
appear to be sixty or sexenty in all. It is possible. thouL^h I 
have no defuiite evidence of the tact, that some of the Cuban 
soldiers who were killed in the neiij^hborhood of tlu.- American 
battery on El Pozo Hill are buried in this place,-, and may b(^ 
among the unknown dead. Ihit the probabilit\- is that most of 
these are American soldiers who. in the prcvailiuL;' hurr\- and 
conlusion. wvvc hastily buried and no maik |)laced upon their 



Second Cemetery of the First Division Hospital 

During- the latter part ol the summer and until our sick 
were removed to the vacated Spanish Military 1 lospital, ih<- lirst 
Division Hospital, which had been removed from its original loca- 
tion near Gen. Shatter's headcpiartcrs, was placetl at a sitt- known 
as Sueno, northeast of Santiago. This h()S|)ital, after the e.xode 
ot the b'itth Corps, was in charge of Major Ikuiister as Surgeon 
Chief, one ot the most gallant and competent of the regular 
arm\- surgeons. Here, as with the dead from the .Second 
Infantry, he took particular pains to mark the gra es caretiilly. 
From the hospital tents near the roadsitle, a path led northward 
down a gentle declivity to the little oval |)atch o\ gray earth 
amid the tro])ical greenerw In-yond in the vallcx" towered 
main' ro\al i)alms, antl still tnrtlicr norih the mountains swelled 
toward the hori/on clad in luxuriant verdure. The tollowing is 
the list of those who sleep in that be; utilul spot : 



256 



/IDartial Graves 



No. 274. John Jenkins, Privt. Co. K, 9th U. S. Cavalry, 
died Sept. 3d. 1S9S. 

No. 275. Jos. I. Black, Private. Co. K. 71st N. Y. \'ol. 
Inf. Died Sept. 2d, 1898. 

No. 276. P^rank M. Covert, private, Co. H, 16th LI. S. Int. 
Died Sept. 2d, 1898. 

No. 277. Richard Jones, laborer (colored), Charleston, S. C, 
Squad 17. The Captain of the Squad was M. J. Christopher, 
attached to First Division. 

No. 278. Serot. William H. True, Co. C, 9th U. S. Inf. 

Died Sept. ist, 1898. 

No. 279. Corp. Jno. C. 
Good, Co. E, 1 6th U. S. Inf. 
Died Aug-. 31st, 1898. 

No. 280. Clarence 
Lewis, Co. P, 2d Reg-. Inf. 
U. S. Died Aug. 30, 1898. 
No. 281. Richard Mar- 
tens, Private, Co. G, 71st N. 
Y. Vol. Inf. Died Aug. 28, 
1898. 
No. 282. Corporal lohn Howitt, Co. C, 71st N. Y. \ ol. 

Died Aug. 25th, 1898. 
No. 283. Private Chas. S. Ross, Co. I, ist L^ S. Cavalry. 
Died Aug. i8th, 1898. 

The cemetery of the Pield Hospital of the Second Regi- 
ment L'nited States Infantry is situated on the heights between 
Santiago and the San juan hills, a little north of the Caney 
Road. It was pointed out by Brigade Surgeon Major William 
B. Banister, who had been in special charge of the Second Regi- 
ment as attending surgeon during its service in the field, and 




Fig. 134 
Plan of Ct'iiie/eiy, Bci U. S. Infantry. 



Inf 



Jfallcu lun-oc-^ ot the ll^otHHtal 



257 



ill hospilal duties iniiiicclialcK' therealtcr. l-"ruiii the Laiiey 
Ivoad, a little heyoiul the first cuKcrt, a path leads iij) the hill to 
this ^roiip of urrav^es. rhe\' are in a little hasiii on the slopt- ot 
the hill, just below tlie inilitar)' crest ot the height on wliich is a 
line of entrenchments occui)ied 1)\' the I\oiil;1i Riders. The 
headqtiarters of (ien. Lawton were just north ot this hnryin.L;' 
ground. The space occupied is lortx' ti\-e leet lon;^ 1)\- ten teet 
wiile. 1 he ijnu'es are all marked, and are in the order ot th(^ 




\\r.. iy^ Vu;. 136 

Ci-metay of Fie I J lh>spita\ 2d ('. S. InJ.nilry. 

following: niimliers proceedin;^- trom north to south. I he li^t is 
ojven in the torm ot the inscriptions upon the headli)ards: 

Xo. 284. •• l'\t. John A. Curtin, Co. C :(nh V . ^. Inf 
Died Aug. 15th, i8g8." The recortls show that h<- died in the 
First Division Hospital, Aiii^-. 15th. i8q8. 

Xo. 285. "-Coriil. 1. lla\cs, Co. C 2nd Inf 1 )ied .\u-. 4th. 
1898." Corporal James Hayes. 

Xo. 286. " Pvt. Thos. Detrick, Co I 2nd Inf Died Aui^. 



258 



nuavtial Graves 



4th, 1898, Santiago de Cuba." This name is not upon my 
official list. 

No. 287. "John Chase, Pvt. 2nd Inf. Died July 30th, 1898. 
Santiago de Cuba." John H. Chase, Co. E, 2d U. S. Infantry. 

No. 288. " W. R. Peacock, Pvt. Co. E, 2nd Inf. Died July 
22nd, 1898, Santiago de Cuba." W'm. R. Peacock. 

No. 289. " G. Lewenhock, Pvt. Co. E, 2nd Inf Died July 
23d. 1898. Santiago de Cuba," Gerrit Leeuwenhock. 

No. 290. "David McCafferty, Pvt. Co. E., 2d U. S. Inf. 
Died July 29th, 1898." 



Entrenchments 

E 



22. PACE5 LONG 



SLOPE 



Caney road 
about 200 yds. 




Fic. 137 
Chart of Cemetery oj Field Hospital, jd I \ S. Infantry. 

No. 291. "Pvt. Jno. F. Minnis, Co. A, 2d U. S. Inf Died 
July 30th, 1898. Santiago de Cuba." Surgeon Banister informed 
me that this man died suddenly of heart failure while being 
supported by a comrade on the way from the sink. 

No. 292. "Pvt. Nelson M. Jewell, Died Aug. ist, 1898. 
Co. A. 2nd r. S. Inf" 

No. 293. " Corp. E. E. Koch, Co. A., 20th U. S. Inf. Died 
Aug. 6th, 1898." 



Jfallcn H.'^cioci^ ot tbc 1I?0i?pital 



•_'■.•► 



Xo. 294. " I'ri-' t. C'has. II. Illakc, Co. C, (or (1) rnd W S. 
Int. Died Aul;. iilli. iSc^S." rri\alc IMakc's name I fomul 
111)011 th(; records ot tlic lirsl l)i\ision 1 lospilal as liaxiiiL; (li<-d 
Aul;'. I ith, i89<S. 

Xo. 295. "foe C. (orO.) P^i^bert, I'rixate, Co. 1\ 2iid l'. S. 
Inf. Died Aug. i6th, '9<S. Rest in Peace." 




ri^iffi^iJ, 



« ♦^ 













W' 



Vtc. 13S 
Graz'cs of Prh^alcs Smilli mid Clans-., nth i'. S. Inf,iu!ry, in a Spanish Irouh. 

\\\ a trciuh al)(Uil ico v;n\ls troin the cemetery <'i lli<" 
Second IiitaiUr\- two men ol the Teiuh Intantry arc; buried in 
the same L;ra\c ( )ne name is marked upon the headlioard 
and another on the rude pinewood toot l)(\'ird. < )n eidier si(h- 
of the space occupied 1)\' llie mound is thrown del^risot \arious 
sorts, tin cans, etc. (Fiii'. 13S.) 

Xo. 296. " I-'.. Smith. Co. \\ loih Inf." Prix ate I!rnest 



•j(;(> 



/iDavtial Grave: 



Smiih died in the l-'irst Division Hospital August 12, 1898, and 
was buried with Private Chtusz on the same day. 

No. 297. "W. H. Clausz. Co. A, lothlnf." According to 
the records Private W'm. H. Chuisz died in the First Division 
Hospital Auq-ust t2, 1898. 

In a southwesterly direction from the cemetery of the Sec- 
ond Regiment of Infantry is a group of graves composed with 
one exception of the Thirty-fourth Regiment of Michigan \^olun- 

teers. It lies about 
one hundred yards 
to the northeast of 
the Caney Road, and 
the graves are along 
the trail issuing trom 
that road and winding 
toward the northwest 
among the encamp- 
ments of the various 
regiments as they 
were stationed shortly 
after the battle and 
preceding the surren- 
der. The spot marks 




lie. 139 
Char: of soldiers' gru-res in the field norlheasl of Saii/iai^-o. 
{Aft :r plan in the Quartermaster s Department, IVash- 
in<;toi.) 



the vicinity of the Meld Hospital of the Thirty-fourth Michigan. 
The list of deceased is as follows : 

No. 298. Private George Lind, Co. D. 34th Mich. \^)1. Inf. 

Died August 3, 1898. 

No. 299. Private Albert J. Chapman, Co. D, 34th Mich. 
Vol. Inf. Died August 3, 1898. 

No. 300. Private John A. McDondd, Co. D, 34th Mich. 
Vol. Inf. Di<-(1 luly 31. 1898. 



Jfallcn 1!?croci? of tbc U^oiH^tal -'''i 

No. 301. IVivatc l-raiuis j. \'i\ian, Co. 1), ;,4th Midi. 
\'()1. Inf. Died July 31. i SgS. 

\<). 3(12. l'ri\alc William J. Doian. Co. 1 ), 3 iih Miih. 
\'()1. Int". 1 )icHl July 29, iS(,,S. 

Xo. 30^. Pri\at(; Rinaldo K. Shord. Co. 11, 3.}th Mirli. 
\'()1. Inf. Died July 29. 1S9S. 

Xo. 304. rrixatc Cdiarlcs CU-'iiinicns. Co. 11, 34lh Mich. 
\ol. inf. Uicd July 20. i^q'l. 

Xo. 305. Sergt. John Oliver, Co. 1{. 34lh Mich. \'ol. Inf. 
1 )icd .\iii_;ust 2, 1 898. 

Xo. 306. Privat(; Thomas K. licnncr, Co. II, 34th Mich. 
\'ol. Inf. Dictl August 2, 1S9S. 

Xo. 307. Private C. Boldi, Co. C. loth U. S. IiilaiUry. 
Xot on my co[)\' ot the otticial list oi deaths. 

No. 30S. ()\(M- llic hill ahoiil three hundred yards due 
north from the grave of l'ri\ates C lausz and .Smith is a single 
grave on a slope marked : " {erome 1"". (iitlord. Died Aug. 2. 
1898." He was a i)rivate and a musician. 1 he 1 )ucareau 
mansion bears east a little north theretrom. 

X(i. 309. North of the cemetery of the 34th .Michigan and 
to the left of the winding road above referred to is the solitar\- 
grave of lames M. I laney, i)rivate, Co. \\ 6th U. S. Inf., who 
died in the I'irst 1 )i\ision 1 lospiial .Xu-ust 16. (14) 1898. It 
is near the entrenchment occupied by the 74'di Xew ^ ork 
Infantry near the crest ot the ritlge. 

Xo. 310. bi a northwesterly direction from the gra\c ot 
Haney are two graves on the crest occupied by the li:;ht 
battery. The first is that of Sergeant William 1 \ .S. N oung. 
Co. \C 71st X. V. Vo\. Inf.. Died Jul\ 29. 1898. 

Xo. 311. Private William \\. Cbevers. Co. I. 71st X. N. \' 
bif., 1 )ied Aug. 1st, 1898. 



262 /IDartial Graves 

No. 312. Gus. Grahn. Co. L, 7i.st N. Y. Vol. Inf. Died 
July 29th, 1S98. A solitary grave lying northward of the last 
two named. 

Xo. 313. Westward of the last named grave near a point 
where the trails intersect is a group of four graves. They are 
on the ridge near the location of the light battery and the camp 
of Col. Theaker's Regiment. The position is near and a little 
east of the railroad to Cuabitas. The first grave is that of 
Private Albert Bergunde, Co. G, i6th U. S. Inf. Died July 
26th, 1S98. 

Xo. 314. Private Edwin T. Bennett, Co. B. i6th U. S. Inf. 
Died July i, 1898. 

Xo. 315. Jno. A. Mendig, Co. K, 16th U. S. Inf. Died 
Aug. 1 2th, 1898. This is supposed to be the location of this 
soldier's grave, but the matter is in some doubt. 

Xo. 316. Private Sanford G. Powell. Co. B. 16th U. S. Inf. 
Died Aug. 14th. 1898. 

Xos. 317-319. Unknown American soldiers. Xear and on 
the northwest side of the Sabinilla Railroad, and north of the 
ridge and entrenchments occupied b)- Gen. Theaker as head- 
quarters on July 12, 1898, are three unmarked graves. 

Passino- alon^r the road to Cuabitas, and turnine to the left, 
two groups of graves are found on and near the ridges whereon 
the field battery and the iM'igade of Gen. ChaHee were 
encamped. The first group of three is within the curved line 
of entrenchments close by the battery, and is composed of men 
of the Twelfth United States Infantry. 

Xo. 320. Private James S. Stallings, Co. B, 12th V. S. Inf. 
Died July 30th, 1898. 

Xo. 321. Pvt. Alfred Webster, Co. A, 12th U. S. Inf. Died 
July 20th, 1898. 



jfallcn 1Fxn-oc3 of tbc Hx^HMtnl 



lm;:; 



Xo. 322. (_). M. StT-t. Jolin W. r.lair. X. C. S. 12th T. S. 
Inf. jiih- 22(1. iS(,S. 

Xortluvcst ot this group and still lUdrcr tlu- hcatl(iuarl<Ts 
of (i(Mi. Chaffee at the almve date are the uraxcs of thre(* men 
of the 17111 r. S. Infantr)-. They arc situated on the hill 
underneath a tree with the heads of the graves toward the 
trunk. There are no crosses or headboards placed at the graves, 
but the inscriptions which designate the fallen icomrades haw- 
been carved upon the white space lonned li\ chipping out 




I'lG. 140 

Chart of burials in the field north of Santiago. {Aftn- plan in 
Qiia>terniasler''s Department. ) 

sections of the bark. A full i)age drawing of this group will 
be]found Chapter II. l^'g. 12. 

Xo. 323. Sergt. Robert Boyle, Co. 1)., 17th I". ^. Inf. Died 
Aug. 4th, 189S. 

Xo. 324. Private Win. 11. r.\crs, Co. C... 17th C. .S. Inf 
Died July 27th. 1898. 

Xo. 325. Terence M. Mcl^onald, Musician. Co. P. 17th 
U. S. Inf Died Aug. 1 1 th. 1898. \\'ox this and the two 
preceding numbers see Cha[). II, Tig. 12.) 



264 



/IDartial Graves 



No. 326. Private Krnest A. Schetzel, Co. H. 22d U. S. Inf. 
Died |ul\- 2. iSqS. I stopped at the headquarters of Captain 
Edward Phmimer. the efficient chief of transportation for the Fifth 
Army Corps, to inquire the shortest road to the headquarters 
of Gen. Wheeler. He kindly detailed one of his men, an 
enlisted soldier from Arizona, to show me the way. Our path 
led along a trail which led past the Ducaureau mansion and so 
into the road to Caney. In one of the most solitary portions 
of this trail we came across a orave on the very edo-e of the 



track. 



"he 



dense 




chaparral which grew high antl wild on 
either side of the trail over- 
shadowed an earthen mound 
which was scarcely raised above 
the surface. The comrades ot 
the dead had made some effort 
to protect the grave by erect- 
ing a frail enclosure of stakes, 
which already was broken down. 
A rude marker was placed at 
the head, upon which the name 
was written with a lead pencil, 
A more solitary place for burial 
one could hardly conceive. Fearing that the constantly passing 
trafhc would soon obliterate all traces of the dead, I gathered 
sticks and a bit of heavy branch and sought to protect the 
grave as best I could. I left it, nevertheless, with the fear that 
this solitary i)lace would never be found. I was glad to learn, 
however, that INIr. Rhodes and his men had come across it, 
and that the jjlace was duly designated by a more permanent 
marker. 

No. 327. Private Lawrence Van Valkenburg, Co. H, 4th 



Fig. 141 
Chart of graves near Santa Cruz. 



jfallcn 1l?croci^ ot tbc (Ix-^t-pir.il 



265 



U. S. Inf. I )i<«l lul\- J, iS(;S. A litilc turlhcr alon- the same 
[rail, l)iil turlhcr into the chaparral, is another ^rave. It could 
onl\- l)c Iniind hy persistent searchinL;'. It is in the very midst 
ot and cpiite ()\ershado\ved by the; wild tropical growth. Kahhit 
trails lead into the deep jungle, and the grave was tonnd l»y 
followinL; them. 

Xo. ;^2S. •• Pri\ati' lUirton Salisbur\-. CO. li, 21st Inf. 
I )ied Any. 6, iSgS." At the side of the Cane)- Road, under- 
neath a lanji-e s^^iasima tree, 
is a well-i)res('r\(al j^rax'e 
(Fig. 142). The edge is 
marked by stones, and th<' 
name is especialK' well 
carved on a hc-ax}' head- 
board. The site is al)Out 
a mih; and a halt from 
Santiago. About se\ent\- 
t'i\-e \ards distant is a tall 
jjalm tree. 

On a trail leading 
into the .San Miguel Road, 
between C ane\- and Ciiabi- 
tas, Mr. Rhodes found a 




Ih.. 142 
(/'/•(KV cf Ihirlcit Sd/isl'iii V. ji^f I'. S. Iiifntitry. 



group ot seven gra\es. 
They are located about fifty feet south of the road and about half 
a mile eastward of Cuabitas. The following is a list of the 
soldiers buried therein : 

Xo. 329. Private Patrick 1. Monahan. C"o. W. 7th l'. S. Inf". 
Died Aug. i6th, i S98. 

Xo. 330. Private Jose|)h ReilK Co. ("..7th I'. S. Inf". I )i<-d 
Aug. 13th, 1898. 



266 



/IDartial Graves 



No. 331. Sero-t. William II Thorn. Co. B, 7th U. S. Inf. 
Died Aug. 12th, 189S. 

No. 332. Private Harvey H. Graham. Co. A, 7th U. S. Inf. 
Died Aug. ^di. JS98. 

No. ^^^. Corp. Frank Leroy. Co. F, 7th l". S. Inf. 

No. 334. Private William T. Dudley. Co. G. 7th U. S. Inf. 
Died Aug. 3rd, 1898. 

^^^^- 335- Pi'ivate Edward Messet. Co. G, 7th U. S. Inf. 
Died Aug. I St. 1898. 

No. 336. Unknown American Soldier, probabh' of the 9th 
U. S. Cavalry. 

Nos. 337, 338. These numbers are designated in Chap. 
VII, p. 211, Fig. 1 20. 

The Second Division Hospital 

This organization has the unsavory distinction of presenting 
almost the worst record of neorliofence in markino- the deceased 

soldiers' graves. 
The original 
First Divisional 
Hospital far ex- 
ceeds it in the 
number ot un- 
known, but can 
at least ph^ad the 
absorbing a n d 
exhausting work 
of batde. The 
Second Division 
Hospital had no such excuse. When I visited its headquarters 
I found the matter had scarcel}- been considered. I made 




Fig. 143 
Chait of i^raTCs nea7- San Miguel. 



jfallcn Uun-ocf^ ot the 1hoiH"'ital 



a sketch and notes ot the hur^inL; plot near the h()si)ital^ 

and on nw report ot the eomhiion ot iliiiiL^s to Cliiel Surgeon 

Ha\-ai\l a phm and a hst olnaines was made out by tin- suri^i'on 

in char^x'. In this hst several more q^raves were marked than 

I tound desiL^nated on nu' visit. Ihit ot" ihirty-lour huri.ds in 

the cemeter\-, onl\ ten were itlentituxl at that time. As the 

sur<Teon then on ihity was an actiiiL;' assistant surL,^eon or cc^n- 

tract doctor, there remained a 

bare hope that better results 

mieht be obtained ti'oiii the 

army surgeons who went to 

America with Gen. Shatter's 

army. This hope was realized 

by the labors ot' the etVicient 

agent ot" the (Quartermaster's 

Department. .Mr. Rhodes found 

the same condition ot negleii 

that I ha\e noted, Imt alter hi 

return was able to itlenlity troi; 

clivers records and reports a 

number of the unmarked 

graves, leaxing only eight or ten 

still unknow n. d'he list as known to me now stands as follows : 

No. ^:;39. Private Hugh (".. 1 )avis. Company 1{ 2nd Massa- 
chusetts X'oluntecr Infantry, died Aug. nth, i Sc;S. 

No. 340. l'rl\ ate Percy 1 1. Howard. Company \k 1st I'nited 
States Infantry, died Aug. 12th, iSgS. 

No. 341. Pri\ate loseph P. Ashm(»re, Coin|)any !">. 12th 
United States Infantry, died Avig. 12th. iSgS. 

No. 342. Corp(M-al lulward P. ?loore. Company 11. Sth 
United States Infantrv, tlied Aug. 12th, 189S. 




Ki(.. 144 
Ct'iiii/cn- of Second Division Hospital , Santiago. 



2(;s 



nnarital (5i*avc5 



Nos. 343-347. Unknown American Soldiers. 
No. 348. Private Daniel E. Gruber, Company C, Sth Ignited 
States Infantry, died Aug-. 8th, 1898. 

No. 349. Private Gustave J. Bjork, Company A, 12th 
I'nited States Intantry, died Aug. 8th, 1898. 

No. 350. Private William Kallock, Company G, 22nd 
United States Infantry, died August 8th. 1898. 

No. 351. Private Will- 
iam C. Green, Conipany H, 
2nd Massachusetts X'olun- 
teer Infantry, died Aug. 
9th, 1898. 

No. 352. Private Paul 
L. X'esper, Company B, 
2nd Massachusetts Volun- 
teer Infantry, died Aug. 
loth, 1898. 

No. 353. Private Albert 
H. Leek, Company E, 22nd 
United States Infantry, died 
Aug. I 1 th, 1 898. 

No. 354. Private Jos- 
eph C. Grifhn, Company H, 
8th United States Infantry, died Aug. iith, 1898. 

No. 355. Corporal James Ouirke, Company G. 1 2th United 
States Infantry, died Aug. 23rd, 1898. 

Nos. 356-358. Unknown American Soldiers. 
No. 359. Private Henry Perberich, Company G. 4th United 
States Infantry, died Aug. 29th, 1898. 

No. 360. Private George R. Holloway, Company E, 7th 
United States Infantry, died Aug. 29th, 1898. 




Fk;. i-i6 



Jfallci\ Mcvoct? ot the iHot^Mtal •-''•"•' 

No. 361. ]'ri\it<- Conrad C Juhnson, ConipaiU' A. isi 
United States InlaiUrx'. 

No. 362. Corporal Christian Larson, Coninany I'. 1 2lh 
United States lnfantr\-. tlied Aug-. 3rd. iScjS. 

Xo. 363. Private Tliomas J. Uarretl, Company I'^ 1 7lh 
United States Infantry. 

Xo. 364. I'rixate Xathan j. AM»oU. C<)mp.in\- 1'), jlh 
United States Infantry, died Aui^^ 4lh, 1 89S. 

Xo. 365. 1^-ivate William Gibson. Company C, 7th L'nitcd 
States Infantry, tlied An-. 7ili. iSc,S. 

Xo. 366. Corporal William C. Pijicr. Comp:in\ i\, mil 
Massachusetts X'oliinteer. tlied Au^'. ph, iSgS. 

Xo. 367. Private Anthony Mah >n, Company A. Sih I nilcd 
States Infantry. 

Xos. 368-369. Unknown American .Soldit-rs. 

Xo. 370. 2nd LiciitcriaiU William M. Wood. Company (i. 
I 2th United Slates Infantry, died Au;^. i 2di. iSc,S. 

Xo. 371. Corporal George 1^. Whijjple. Compan\- M, zml 
Massachusetts X'olunteer Infantry, died Aul:". 12th. iSgS. 

Xo. 372. I'rivate llinlon^-. Compan\- \\, United States 
pjioineers. Xot on my cop\' ot otticial list. 



Cemetery of the General Field Hospital 
The General l-'iekl Hospital is situated in thr northeastern 
part of the suburbs of Santiago. It is near the Ouartel Reina 
Mercedes, which has been occupied for some lime as a barracks 
by the men of the Mfth Regular Infantry. The Ouartel is a 
low stone building, anil has attracted a large degree of popular 
interest as the jjlace where Lieut. Hobson and his men were 
imi)risoned after thc-y had lu-en taken nom the Morro. Tourists 



270 



/IDavtial Grav>c5 



are now shown, as one of the interestnig sites of Santiago, the 
room in which the gallant naval officer was quartered, and from 
which he made the observations and notes of the battles of 
July 1st, and the conditions and incidents preceding- and follow- 
ing the same, which may be read in his interesting volume, 
"The Sinkine of the AlerriDiacy 




Fk;. 14(1 
A'eiiia ALricdt-s Barracl^s, Liciil. Uobso)i''s Second Prison. 



I do not know who had charge of this hospital from the 
first, but at the time of my second visit it was in charge of 
Maj. Robeson, of the regular army. I )r. \. Havard, the 
Surgeon-Chief, had his (quarters in the camj), and the burials 



Jf alien 1I?cvoc£^ ot the Iho^nntal 271 

were in charge of Assistant Hospital Steward j. I'. l-"airinan, 
fonncrK- ol the ScnciUv tirst New \ ni-k Inlaiury, who hail been 
transferred to tiic hospital I'orpsoi the regular service. The 
dead were biu-ied one alter another in the runways of the 
Spanish entrtMichments, which accounts tor the peculiar form of 
the cemeteries. They were wrapped in sheets and blankets, 
and not one of all the sixty-six thei-e mleiTed was cothned. 
However necessary this may have been at tirst, it seems to me 
unjustifiable durintj;- the last weeks of the liekl 1 [(jspital's life. 
The ( )uartermaster. Cai)t. Gonzales, furnisheti coffins for those 
who dietl at the Xantiial 1 lospital, and would ha\c ilone the 
same on application Irom an\' other propcM" source. All the 
graves were marked simply but sutlicii-ntl)-. A few have been 
especially decorated by comrades. 

Assistant Steward bairman. who had chari^c ot the burials, 
and was one of my fellow passengers when homeward bound 
on the Seouranca, gave his reasons tor converting the runways 
into cemeteries. Runways are the sunken paths leading to the 
trenches and batteries just beyond the .Spanish hos|)ital, dug 
below the le\cl to jji'olect the troops during transit. The soil 
at that point is hard and graxclly, and diltuult to dig. Many 
graves were re([uired. and, owing to thi- climate, must be i)re- 
pared speedilv. (^ur soldiers were sick and enleebled. '1 he 
runways were deep. tlr\-, near at hand — in short, were n^idy 
and suital)le for the recpiireil use. Ihey wcretht relore chosen, 
and thus nearly seventy American soltliers are indebted to their 
.Spanish enemies ft)r the servic*- of jjreparing them a grave. 
In the absence of a chaplain, Mr. b'airman himself conducted a 
simple funeral ser\ice at the graxc, so that all the deail received 
Christian burial, none the less appropriate because rendered by 
comrades. 



272 /IDavtial Graven 

One day, passini^ up from the dock, where I had been to 
get ice for the sick Cubans in the Civil Hospital, I stopped to 
see a friend at the office and warehouse of the W^ard Line of 
steamers. A long vestibule leads into the inner court, which is 
an architectural feature of all important buildings in Santiago, 
just inside the door, close against the vestibule wall, lay a long- 
pine box. whose character I knew too well, for I had otten seen 




Fig 147 



its like in the Ci\"Il W^ar. It contained the embalmed body of a 
soldier, and was awaiting shipment by the next steamer. The 
name of the occupant was roughly sketched on the side, " E. W. 
Whiting." While noting and listing the soldiers buried in the 
Spanish runway's at the (ieneral bielcl Hospital, I lound that 
Whiting was one of those who had been buried there and dis- 
interred for remoxal to the l-nited States. 



jfallcu Ulcroct? ot the Hloypital 



273 



m 

"E.W.WHiTi 

pMwtA.l! 




( )iu' ot the soldiers on pcrinanciu <lut\' with ihc medical 
commissary, whose t^oods ocrii|)ic(i jjari nt ilu; warehouse, had 
set his cot ato|) of th<- cutVin case and there slept. I he first 
sii^ht of this i;a\c somethiiiL;- of a shock, as thoiiL;h it w<'re a 
violation ot the sanctity of death. lUit reflec- 
tion Ictl one to (|iiality this teelinL;. SureK', 
Comrade W liilin^" would not olijecl ihat his 
cottin be used to litt a lellow-soldier above a 
tlamp floor ? Besides, there was no irreverence 
in tlu' intention. The very closeness of svmpa- 
tlu' and comradeship between the ]i\ in^; and llie 
dead soldier took away the sense of rei)ulsion 
which most persons ha\e from close contact 
with the dead. The livino- soldier could slee|) 
with his dead brother as he iniL^hl ha\f done 
in tent, or on the held, or in the deadl\- li'ench. 
Yes, they would bivouac tOL;ether, the liviuL^ 
and the dead ; for are they not still comratles 
in that strane^e fellowship whiih holds between 
"death and his twin brother sleep?" Wy and 
by — and it may be soon, indeed — "on fame's 
eternal campinor o^round." they will be aL;ain unittu 
bivouac of the dead." 



Died Au^fl.l'AM 

1898 / 
I//. 




Fig. 148 



m 



th< 



"Sleep anel Death, two twins ot wiui^etl race, 
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent j)ace." 

— /\>pi's I Iodic)-' s fliad 

On a bit of pine board, apj)arentl\- the fVaL^ment of" .1 
cracker box. the name ot thi' dead sleepi-r was inscribed care- 
fully, as if by a loving hand. The little h.eadboard was laid 
under the cot upon the to]) of the burial rase, and was d(nil)tless 



^"-^ /IDartial Graven 

the one that marked tlie grave where the hero had been buried. 
(Fig-. 148.) 

Of the soldiers interred here 14 belonged to the 34th 
Michigan, 6 to the 9th Massachusetts, 5 to the 71st New York, 
5 to the I St Illinois. 2 to the 2nd Massachusetts and i, Capt. 
Leininger, to the 8th Ohio, and the remainder to various regi- 
ments ot the regular service. 

First Section, General Field Hospital, Santiago 

No. 37i.\.--' Private Peter P. Haan, Company D. 34th 
Michigan Volunteer Infantry, died Aug. 3rd, 1898. 

No. 372A. Private George Martin, Company L, 34th Michi- 
gan \'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 3rd, 1898. 

No. ^^-^y^-f. Private Francis \V. Car)', Company H, 9th Massa- 
chusetts X^olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 5th, 1898. 

No. 374. Private Harry L. Pease, Company H, 8th United 
States Infantry, died Aug. 4th, 1898. 

-^o- 375- !•*• ^- Hayes, Company B, 20th Cnited States 
Infantry, died Aug. 5th, 1S98. 

No. 376. Private Peter F". \^andenboom, Company L, 34th 
Michigan X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 4th, 1898. 

No. 377. Pri\ate Thomas \'. Gilbert, Company I), 34th 
Michigan X'olunteer Infantry. 

No. 378. Eugene B. McLoughlin, Company A, 9th Massa- 
chusetts X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 16th, 1898. 

No. 379. .Xrtificer P'rank C. Boyer, Company P\ 20th 
Cnited States Infantry, died Aug. 13th, 1898. 

No. 380. Fugene L. Sharroit, Compan\' G, 71st New York 
X'olunteer Infantr}', died Aug. 13th, 1898. 

* The Nos. 371, 372 were previously used and iheir error discovered too lale to change 
subsequent numeration. I therefore designate lliese two graves as 371 A, 372A. 



jfallcu illcioci^ or the jllOiH^ital 



CEMETER1E6 

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I. I'rivatc lulwanl Mxoii. 

;,4th MicliiL;an X'oluntccr 

, I uli. I S9S. 

irporal I hiiry j jinniiii^s. 

C'oiiipam I\, (hIi Massachusetts \ oluiitecr Intan- 

tr)-. died AiiL^. I 2th. i S9S. 

\o. vS^. l'ri\ate Joscj^h W. McFacldcn. 
Company ( ). 1 st I'liitcd States C"a\alr\. th'ed 
Aul;'. i4tli, I S98. 

Xo. 3S4. IM-i\atc . '.rlhur N. riindiaiii. Com- 



27H /iDarttal Graves 

pan\- K, 2nd Massachusetts X'olunteer Infantry, died Auo-. 
1 8th, 1 898. 

Xo. 385. Anton C. Anderson, Company K, 3rd United 
States Infantry, died Aug-. i8th, 1898. 

No. 386. Pri\ate Millard F. Taft, Company H, 3rd United 
States Infantry, died Aug-. i8th, 1898. 

Xo. 387. Corporal Walter A. Jarvis, Company A, 9th 
United Stat(is Infantry, died Aug. 19th, 1898. 

Xo. 388. Private August Johnson, Company E, 34th Michi- 
gan \'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 20th, 1898. 

Xo. 389. Corporal Charles Albert Butcher, Company A, 
loth United States Infantry, died Aug. 21st. 1898. 

No. 390. Private Henry Koester, Jr., Company L, 34th 
Michigan Volunteer Infantry, died Aug. 3d, 1898. 

Xo. 391. Private Joseph Griener, Company D, 34th Michi- 
gan \'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 7,6, 1898. 

Xo. 392. Private Joseph Bearry, Company L, 34th Michigan 
X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 30th, 1898. 

Xo. 393. Private Silas Isley Mayo, Company C, 2nd Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer Infantry, died Aug. 5th, 1898. 

No. 394. Private John A. Lewis, Company B, 25th United 
States Infantry, died Aug. 6th, 1898. 

^o- 395- Private George P. McLaughlin, Company B, 9th 
Massachusetts X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 6th, 1898. 

No. 396. Corporal Henry [. Grills, Company H, 34th 
Michigan X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 6th, 1898. 

^'o- 397- Brivate Stephen Fatlik, Company ¥, ist Llnited 
States Cavalry. Xot on my official list. 

No. 398. Private Hans Larson, Company H, 3rd United 
States Infantry, died Aug. 7th, 1898. 




1... I50 



Glare of Capt. John A. Lcinin.;er, tth Ohio /iif\tnt>y, Saiitia.^ 



27S riDartial Graves 

\o. 399. r^ivate [^>ank |. Muck, Company D, 34th Michi- 
gan \olunteer Infantr)', died Aug. 7th, 1898. 

Xo. 400. Captain John A. Leininger, Company F, 8th Ohio 
X'ohmteer Infantry, died Aug. 8th, 1898. jMr. Fairman, in 
speaking of the l)urial of Capt. Leininger, said : •• He was a 
fme oflicer, a gentleman, and. from what 1 could learn, a noble 
character. It grieved nie to see the earth thrown upon the 
uncofhned face of such an officer, but we had to do it. I read 
a funeral service over him. as was done over all the dead in 
this cemetery." At m\- second \isit the Qrass and vegetation 
had sprung up on either side ol the burial line so rankl\- as to 
reach the middle of one's body. While showing ni)- poriiolio 
of drawings to President McKinley, he recognized the name of 
Capt. Leininger as an officer whom he knew irom his home 
section in Eastern ( )hio. (big. 150.) 

Xo. 401. Private James Connolly, Com|)any C, 1st United 
States Cavalry, died Aug. 8th, 1898. 

Xo. 402. Private John j. Pepper, Company E, 6th L'nited 
.States bifantry, died Aug. 8th, 1898. 

Xo. 403. Private Edwin W. Whiting, Company A, ist Illi- 
nois Wjlunteer Infantry, died Aug. Sth, 1898. (See P'igs. 147, 148.) 

Xo. 404. Private Lewis C. Heath, Company C, 71st Xew 
York X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. Sth, 1898. 

Xo. 405. Corporal [ohn W. Kyte, Company L, 9th Massa- 
chusetts X^olunteer Infantry, Aug. Sth, 1898. 

Xo. 406. Private John Hogan, Company 13, 34th Michigan 
Volunteer Infantry, died Aug. Sth, 1898. 

Xo. 407. Prixate Joseph I). Lane, Company I, 9th Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer Infantry, died Aug. gth, 1898. 

Xo. 408. Private George H. Culman, Company M, 34th 
Michigan Volunteer Infantry, died Aug. 9th, 1898. The grave 
of Prixate Culman had been carefully and even elaborately 



jfallcu movoct? or tbc 'illoiHMral 



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tU.^C()iMt('>l 1)\' liis i-oinralcs. \hc hcadhoard was C()\"(';'(m1 \viih 
a piece of sheet zinc, and on this ilie name, company and thitc 
of death were punchetl. hi the centre was outlined a cross 
risin^i;- out of a hemisphere. Ihe mound is friiiL^rd with a num- 
htiv o\ unthscliarL^cd Spanish ti\<' iiuli shells. o| which manv are 
l\inL;" aroiin<l the premises, and also with shells o| hea\i<'r calihre. 






















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lie. 151 
Craz'e of Geoixc If. Culiiinn, J.flh Mifhigan. 



On the lo()tl)oard is carxcd a cross. Tile hospital steward h id 
placed at the head of the L;ra\ e a warninL^- notice; •• Pan-<'r. 
Primed Shell. Don't touch I" .\ ])emilled adiiition in current 
writinor stated that the shells had JK-en •• placed here a^^ainst 
orders." MoweNcr, they had not bc» n disturhetl. and the |)ic- 
turescpieness ot this ^rave relieved the monotony ot the lonn^ 
line ot iilain mounds. 



280 nnartial Graves 

No. 409. Private Harvey McGuire. Company E. 6th United 
States Infantry, died Aug-. 10th. 1898. 

No. 410. Private William J. Waters, Company B, 8th 
I'nited States Infantry, died Aug. loth, 1S98. 

No. 411. Private Herman W. Goetz, Company F, ist Illi- 
nois \'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. loth, 1898. 

No. 412, Private John A. Shaw, Company F, 71st New 
York X^olunteer Infantry, died Aug. iith, 1898. 

No. 413. Private P^dward C. Kroupa, Company B, 71st 
New York Volunteer Infantry, died Aug. i ith, 1898. 

No. 414. Musician William H. Leonard, Company H, 3rd 
L'nited States Infantry, died Aug, 12th, 1898. 

No. 415. Quartermaster Sergeant Frank S. Alden, Com- 
pany L, 7 1 St New York \^olunteer Infantry, died Aug. i 2th, 1 898. 

No. 416. Private Thomas Begley, Company C, 21st United 
States Infantry, died Aug. 21st, 1898. 

No. 417. Sergeant Thomas Maher, Company H, 21st 
United States Infantry, died Aug. 21st, 1898. 

List of Burials in Section II, Cemetery General 
Field Hospital 

The first series of entrenchments and runways having been 
fill(-d with our dead, a second series was appropriated. It is a 
curved entrenchment, to the west of the above, and further 
from the main road. 

No. 418. Private George Pleckenstine, Company C, 20th 
United States Infantr)-, (Hed Aug. 30th, 1898. 

No. 419. Private Charles Thorne, Company I), 6th United 
States Infantry, died Aug. 28th. 1898. 

No. 420. Private George J. Briggs, Comj)an)' 1, 34th 
jNlichigaii \ uhmtccr Infantry, died Aug. 25th, 1898. 



jfallcn llxnoci? of Xbc 1I?oi>pital -^' 

Xo. 421. Trivatc Charles IJcndcr. COinpaiU' K. isl I nitrcl 
States Artillcr\\ died Au-. jSth, i S9S. 

Xo. 422. Private John A. Miroski, 1 st IHiiinis N'oUiiUeer 
Infantry, died Ano-. 27th, lSc^S. 

Xo. 42;,. Private lui-cne A. I luzzy. Conipanx A, 1 >l Illi- 
nois X'oluntecr Infantry, died .\iii;. 24th. iSgS. 

Xo. 424. I'livate Thomas Davis, Company P. 7lh I nitcd 
States Infantry, died .\ul;". 2^:,d, 1S9S. 

Xo. 425. Pri\ate John W. P\airchild, C'omitany C, i"th 
L'nited States Infantry, died Aul;. 24th, 1 S(^S. 

Xo. 426. Pri\ate |ohn |. Murpln-. Company .\, (;th Massa- 
chusetts X'olunteer Infantr\-, dietl Aul;. 24th, i S9.S. 

Xo. 427. Private James 11. Miller, Company P. 2nd 
I'nited States Infantr)-, died Aul;. 25th, iSc,S. 

Xo. 42S. Ser-eant Raymond C. lUiell. Company .\, 2nd 
United States Infantry, died .\u^. 25th, 1 89S. 

Xo. 429. Private Andrew V. lla^erstrand. Company P>, 7lh 
United .States Infantry, died .\ii,i^. 25th. iS()S. 

Xo. 430. Private .Xrchihald 11. Jones, e'ompany 1', 2nd 
United States Infantry, died .\u_-. 25th, iSoS. 

Xo. 431. Corporal Charles X'iherts. Company I, 1 st Illinois 
XOlunteer Infantry, died .\ii-. 20th. 1 S9S. 

Xo. 432. Wagoner George R. P.ray. Com}). my V. 1 st Illi- 
nois X'olunteer Infantry, died .Sept. 3rd. iSoS. 

Xo. 433. Private Eugene Munger. Company C. 1st I nited 
States Cavalry, died Sept. 3rd. 1S9S. 

Xo. 4^4. Private ha-nest W. P..ill/er. Comi)an\- C>, i st Illi- 
nois X'oliinteer lnlantr\-, died .Sei)t. 5th, i S9S. 

Xo. 435. Corporal Ceorge E. llinnen, Comi.any 1", 2nd 
United States Infantry, died Sept. 7th, 1S9S. 



2*^2 nnavtial (3ravc3 

No. 436. Private George B. Lovejoy, Company E. 34th 
Michigan X'olunteer Infantry, died Sept. 12th, 1898. 

No. 437. Civilian Jacob Starke with 2nd Massachusetts 
X'ohinteer Infantry, died Sept. loth, 1S98. 

No. 438. Seru;eant WiUiam Ryan, Company I, 20th I'nited 
.State.-, Infantr\-, died Sept. 14th, 1898. 

No. 439. Private PVancis Casey, Company K, 2d United 
States X'ohmteer Infantry, died Sept. 15th. 

No. 440, Corporal Charles W. Kingston, Company M, 9th 
United States X'olunteer Infantry, died Sept. i 6th, 1898. 

No. 441. Pri\'ate L. \'. ferome, 9th United States Volun- 
teer Infantr\'. Not on my official list. 

No. 442. Musician Albert Richardson, Company L, 9th 
United States Volunteer Infantry, died September 17th, 189S. 

No. 443. Corporal John J. Nikodem, Company K, ist Illi- 
nois X'olunteer Infantry, died September 17th, 1898. 

No. 444. Private XX^lliam Frederick, Company K, 9th 
United States X'olunteer Infantr)\ died Se]:)t. 20th, 1898. 

No. 445. Private John Kilgallon, Company A, 9th United 
States Infantry, died Sept. 21st. 1898, 

No. 4_i6. Private XX'illiam H. Prigham, Co. K, 2d United 
.States X'olunteer Infantr)-. died .Sept. 2rst, 1898. 

No. 447. Civilian Oscar Saltus, Packer, United States, died 
.Sept. 22nd. 1898. 

No. 44S. Private John 'Phomas, Company M, 9th United 
States X'olunteer Infantry, died .Sei)t. 2 2d, 1898. 

Burials from the General Hospital at Siboney 

The ordinary burying ground for the American troops at 
Siboney was in the loop made by th(? valley road to Santiago, 
almost opposiie the railroad bridge at Siboney. Here some of 



Jfallcn 'iltcroc£> ot the Kor^ntal li-^-f 

the first iiUfrinciUs were mack'. Aiiiohl; thfin were two Mii hi 
oan soldiers killed (lurinu:' the attempt on A^iiadorcs on July 
I. 1S9S. 

W'hcn the yellow icver broke out, and under the spirit ot 
the fir-^t [)anic, a h()s])ital cain[) was estahlished in the hills at a 
considerable distance from the- landiiiL^'. Hut the; inconvenience 
of a location so far from the base ot supplies was such, esj^e- 
cially in view of <:he lick of transportation facilities and thejjre- 
vailino- inaptitude and debility aniouLi^ the men. that a new hos- 
pital was established on the slo])esot the rid^-e abo\c the beach 
at Sibone)-. The cemeter\- which had already been selected in 
the hills about a mile from the lirst IjuryiuL; j^round at the rail- 
road bridge, was maintained, and therein were interred most ot 
those who died of yellow le\er and other diseases at tlv; ( jen- 
er.d Siboney I lospital. The graves to the number ol 106 are 
regularly laid out. one beside another in long rows, beginning 
at a point about fifty yards tVom the railroad track ot the min- 
ing company. 

On the lOth of luly die Twentydourih Cniied States 
Infintry was detailed to guard the fever hospital, and on the 
next da\ a cordon of sentinels was drawn around the i)remises 
so as to prevent all unauthorized communication with those 
outsick? the bounds. I'he i)lac(; was <piarantined ag.iinst the 
rest of the world. Shortly after m\- arrixal in Sa.itiago. haj)- 
pening to speak of my purpose to go to .Siboney on an err.nul 
of merc\-. I was authoritati\-ely informed that if I went I could 
not return, but must remain at the i)lace. However, the cpiar- 
antine was not so striit but that las I hapi)en to know) there 
was al\va\s more or less communication between the two 
places. Indeed, it would have been an act of gross inhumanity 
to wholly cut off such communications, as it was absolutely 



284 martial eraves 

necessary for the maintenarice of the hosjMtals that there should 
be some passing- to and fro on the part of those most nearly 
concerned in the care of the sick. However, it must be allowed 
that the quarantine was maintained with a reasonable degree of 
fidelity, and the very name of Siboney became, at least to the 
soldiers of the Fifth Army Corps and the people of Santiago, a 
synonym for all that is horrible in the annals of human suffer- 
ing ; a pest hole, a valley of death and the shadow thereof. 

The conduct of the men of the Twenty- fourth Infantry in 
volunteering to aid in nursing the sick is elsewhere described. 
(See Chapter XII.) Ithas been thethemeofmanyadmiring writers, 
who are of one mind as to the heroic and humane action of those 
who deliberately walked into the jaws of the pestilence to serve 
their comrades and their fellow-men. They cared for the sick ; 
they aided in the work of cleaning and disinfecting the premises ; 
they assisted in the burial of the dead. As the result of this 
campaign against the pestilence amid the hills of Siboney, the 
most gallant, perilous, self-denying of the entire war, they lost 
Capt. Charles Dodge and six-and-thirty enlisted men. In the 
following list I have marked with an asterisk the names of this 
officer and twenty soldiers of the Tw^enty-fourth Infantry who 
fell in this heroic service, and whose graves have been identified 
in the General Cemetery. There remain sixteen men, who died 
during or as the result of this tour of duty, whose graves have 
not been identified and whose burial i)laces are unknown to me. 
Of these sixteen, three names are found upon the official list in 
the Adjutant-General's ofhce, and eleven names have been 
obtained from a report given by Mr. Stephen Bonsai in a foot 
note to page 434 of his "bight for Santiago." Doubtless 
some of these men rest in those graves of the General Ceme- 
tery marked " Unknown," and probably some of them were 



jfallcn 1Ixn-oci3 ot the lbo£->;Mtal 285 

transportt^cl to Moiitaiik I'oiiit ;iinl arc hiiricd there 1 ht- 
names ot these l)ra\'e soldiers who h.i\c shed such lustre ujx)!! 
the records of our regular army aud of th(-ir race, will be found 
at the close of tlie list of j-allen 1 ieroes beginning; with No. O15. 
Xo. 449. Captain Charles I )od!^e/== Company C, 24th 
United States Infantry. Hied jul\- 30, iSgS. 

No. 450. l.ieuleiianl James 15. .Steele, Company 1\ Si'^nal 
Corps, I'nited .States X'olunteers. Died Au^-. 5, i Sc)S. 

No. 451. Lieutenant Richard j. Harden. Company A. ist 
Regiment I )istrict of Columbia X'olunteers. 1 )i<(l Aug. c;, 1S98. 
No. 452. l'ri\ate Jacol> 1'. rhillips/^^ C/ompan\ \i, 24th 
I'nited States Infantry. Pied Aug. 14, 1S9S. 

No. 453. .Sergeant iM'ed \\. Stuart, Cnited States \'ol. 
Signal Corps, died Aug. 12th, 189S. 

No. 454. Private Charles Whiting. Compan\- ( 1, 3rd I nited 
States Infantry. 1 )ied Aug. 11, 1898. 

No. 455. Private Robert Poettcher. Comi)any .\. ist 111. 
X'olunteer Infantry. Aug. 10, 1898. 

No. 456. Private PVanklin Campbell. Compaiu' G. 7th 
I'nited States Infantr\-, Aug. o. i S98. 

No. 457. Private Herbert Barr. Comi)an\- 1\ 33rd Michigan 
Infantr\-. Not on any official list. 

No. 458. Private Warren C.reen,-\ Compan\ 11, 24th 
United States Infantry. Died Aug. 5. 1 89S. 

No. 459. Teamster C. C. Comb, United States Army. 
Not on official list. 

No. 460. Private W. Shelh. Comp.my D. 2uth United 
States Infantry. Not on official list. 

No. 461. Unknown Ami ric.in .Soldier. 

No. 462. .Sergeant bihn l.annen. Company ( "•. ;d I . .S. 
Cavalrv. died Iu1\- 24th. 1898. 



286 /IDavtial Graves 

No. 463. Private Ward Mars, Company I, 33rd Michigan 
\'olunteer Infantry. Died July 24, 1898. 

Nos. 464-465. Unknown American Soldiers. 
No. 466. Sergeant Major Clair H. Stetson, ist United 
States Infantry. Died July 12, 1898. 

No. 467. Pri\-ate Palmer, Company E, ;th Ignited 

States Infantry. Not on the official list. 

No. 468. Private \\'al)ur, Comi)any H, 33rd Michi- 
gan Infantry. Not on official list. 

No. 469. Teamster M. Stewart, United States Army. Not 
on official list. 

No. 470. Private William Park, Company K, ist Illinois 
Infantry. Not on official list. 

No. 471. Private James F. P^arrell, Company H, 9th Massa- 
chusetts \^olunteer Infantry. Died July 26. 1898. 

No. 472. Private William Brent,=-= Musician, Company H, 
24th United States Infantry. Died July 29, 1898. 

No. 473. Private Arthur E. Eessette, Company C, 33rd 
Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Died Aug. 2, 1898. 

No. 474. Private Paul Zoubeck, Company K, ist Illinois 
Infantry. Died Aug. 4th, 1898. 

No. 475. Private Robert Ramsey,=^= Company C, 24th 
United States Infantry. Died Aug. 6, 1898. 

No. 476. Private John E. Gregg, Company I, ist Illinois 
Infantry. Died Aug. 14, 1898 

No. 477. Private Abraham Benson, =^= Company ¥., 24th 
United States Infantry. Died Aug. 12th, 1898. 

No. 478. Private Peter H. Devoe, Company E, 7th United 
States Infantry, died Aug. iith, 1898. 

No. 479. Sergeant Arthur Henry, Company B, 33rd Michi- 
gan X'olunteer Infantry, dic-d Aug. 10, 1898. 



jfallcu Ihcvoci? ot the 1hOi?pital 



L'NT 



No. 480. l*ri\at(; CharU-s IloatlU^y, Coiiipaiu- L, 1 si Illinois 
JiilaiUi-)-. Died All-. S, 1S9S. 

No. 4S1. I'rl\ ale Waller Kcevcs,'^' Company ( l. 2.\lh Inilccl 
States infantrv. died Aii-. Nth, iSr,S. 



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Chart cf burials al Ceinclcry of the General llosf'ita! at Sil>'itty. 

No. 4S2. Ccr[)oral Parton C. NoitinL^ham, Conij)any K, 
33rd .Michigan Infantry, Aii^;'. 5. iSgS. 

No. 4S3. I'ri\atc |. Alfred .Stcxc-nson, Conipanx- .\. 33d 
MifhiL;an Inlanlrw died Auu;". ^^(\, i SgS. 

No. 4S4. Corporal llcnry A. .'^ha\v,'=' Conijjany I'. 24th 
Cniied .States Infantr\-, diied .Xu-. 2d, iSoS. 



288 /iDartial Graves 

\o. 4S5. Private Carter Bogos,'^' Company H, 24th United 
States Infantry. Xot on official list. 

Xo. 4S6. Private Isaac A. Lester, '=' Company A, 2^th 
United States Infantry, died Aug-, ist, 189S. 

Xo. 487. Private Baucher, Company I, 1st Illinois 

Infantry. Possibly Robert Boettcher, Co. M, ist 111. Inf., who 
died Aug. ic, 1898. 

Xo. 488. Private Paul G. Le Maitre, Company L, ist Illi- 
nois Volunteer Infantry, died July 31st, 1898. 

Xo. 489. Private Otto \V. Johnson, Company F, 4th 
United States Artillery, died Aug. 2d, 1898. 

Xo. 490. Private Alfred H. Taylor, Company H, 21st 
United States Infantry, died Aug. 4th, 1898. 

Xo. 491. Private Oren Thornburn, Company B, 34th 
Michigan \'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 4th, 1898. 

Xo. 492. Corporal George F. Haven, Company D, ist 
Illinois X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 5th, 1898. 

Xo. 493. Sergeant Jesse J. Griffith, Company C, ist Illinois 
\"olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 5th, 1898, 

Xo. 494. Private Frank Gibler, Company I, 8th Ohio X'olun- 
teer Infantry, died Aug. 5th, 1898. 

Xo. 495. Prixate Frank M. Burton, Company I, 33rd Michi- 
gan Volunteers, died Aug. 14, 1898. This soldier and the next 
following are buried in one grave. 

Xo. 495. Private John E. Gregg, Company I, ist Illinois 
Infantry, died Aug. 14th, 1898. 

Xo. 496. Private Charles Hicks, '^^ Company F, 24th Ignited 
States Infantry, died Aug. 12th, 1898. 

Xo. 497. Private Dudley A. Foster, Company F, 7th 
United States Infantry. Xot on official list. 



jfallcii 1hci-oc£-> ot the fl^ot^ntal -'•^'•' 

Xo. 4C)S. I'rixatc l-"raiik M. l-'ullcr, COinpan)- M, 34ih 
.Michi_L;an X'ohintccr lnraiur\', ditnl An-. i"tli, 1S9S. 

Xo. 499. rri\atc |(ihn Wilson, lOinpaiu- I, i<ill"i rnit('il 
States Cavalry, died Aui;-. 9th, 1S98. 

Xo. 500. IVivate Charles Koschii;, Coinpaii)- 11, ;;r<l 
Michii^an lntantr\-, died juh' ;, i st, iSc^S. 

No. 501. Trixalc l-'.dward lldU'i^ain, Conipain 1), ,v;rd 
Michigan Intaiitr)-. Not on otticial list. 

Xo. =,02. Corpond Thonias Robertson/- Company 1>. 2 \\.\\ 
Cnited States Inlantr)-, died Jn1\' 27th, iScjS. 

Xo. 503. Private W'ni. II. I )ollartl. Company C. ;,;,rd 
.MichiL;an Intantr\-, di<Ml July 2'), 1 S98. 

Xo. 504. Corporal Charles \\amble/-= Company 1"., 2 ;th 
United States Infantry, died July 2^, iSc^S. 

Xo. 505. |ohn Beauman. 1 st class Private. P)alloon 1 )et.iil, 
United States Signal Corps, tlied July 2h, iSoS. 

Xo. 506. Private Kahlert 1 )(!aths, 1 uh United Stal<-s Inlan- 
try. Xot on otticial list. 

Xo. 507. Unknown Musician, vph Mii hi-an \ . I. 

Xo. 50S. Private Santord (i. Powell. Company P.. i'>th 
United States Infantry, died .Aug. 14th, i SqS. 

Xo. yK). Pri\ate William Partholomew, Comp.my P. 2nd 
United .States Caxalry, dietl Aug. ist. 1 S^S. 

Xo. 510. Private Ma.\ M. Pansier. Company \\ ; ;rd 
Michigan X'olunteer Infantry, died July 2q. 1S9S. 

Xo. 511. Private Charles 11. I)iggs.=== Compan\ D. 24lh 
United .States Intanlr\-, died .\ug. 7th. i S(>S. 

Xo. 512. Privali- 1-rank .XPels. Compan\- I', 7lh United 
States lnlantr\-. died .\ug. 27th, 1 S(,S. 

Xo. si^ Unknown .\merican .Sold cr. 



290 /iDartial Graves 

No. 514. Private Sandy Smith/-^ Company H, 24th United 
States Infantry. 

No. 515. Private |ohn H. Pansier. Company H, 4thl'nited 
States Artillery, died Aug. 15th, 1898. 

No. 516. Private Ebbie N. Bland, Company A, 8th Ohio 
\'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 12th, 1898. 

No. 517. Private John H. Brackman. Jr.. Company L, 1st 
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, died Aug. iith, 1898. 

No. 518. Private Maryland H. Thompson, Company I, 
lOthT'nited States Cavalry, died Aug. loth, 1898. 

No. 519. Corporal George L. Happer, Company H, 8th 
Ohio Infantry, died Aug. 7, 1898. 

No. 520. Private Luis Tick. Company G, 33rd Michigan 
Infantry, died Aug. 14. 1898. 

No. 521. Wagoner Frank M. Vine, Company E, 9th United 
States Cavalry, died Aug. 17th, 189S. 

No. 522. Private James R. Sedden,^-^ Company F, 24th 
United States Infantry, died Aug. i8th, 189S. 

No. 523. Musician Robert Booker, =^= Company H, 24th 
United States Infantry, died Aug. 24th, 1898. 

No. 524. Private Irwin Whitson, Company G, loth United 
States Cavalry, died Aug. 28th, 1898. 

No. 525. Private William Pendleton, =^= Company F, 24th 
United States Infantry. Not on the official list. 

No. 526. Private A. P. Peterson, Company K, 1st Illinois 
Infantry, died Aug. 31st, 1898. 

No. 527. Private Frayer Appleby,=^= Company A, 24th 
Unitetl States Infantry, died Sept. 2, 1898. 

No. 5 28. Private Charles C. Mitchell, Company L, 8th 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died Sept. 4th, 1898. 



jfaUcn 1Ixn*oc5 of the Ihoi^pital 2!n 

\o. 52Q. Private John Uichards,--'- Coiiijxiny I'>, 2 |t]i I 'nitcd 
States InfaiUry. died Aul;. 24lh, 1S9S. 

Xo. 5_:;o. l*ri\ate James 1'". Sills, Compain- C. ^^.^rel .MichiL^an 
Infantry, died Aul;'. 7th, 1 S()S. 

No. 5;^i. I'rixate I)ani<l j. Maloney, Company G, 3.;nl 
Michig-an Infantry, died Aul^. i,uh, 1S9S. 

Xo. 5;^2. Prixate jolm 1''.. I'allon, Compain- II, i st Illinois 
Infantry, died Aul;'. 1 bth, iSgS. 

No. 5^:;:;. l*ri\ate John .S. Le(\ Company ( i, Sih ( )hio \ ol- 
iinteer Infantry, died Au^-. i6th, i.SgS. 

No. 534. Private Charles |. Phillips. Company V, 33rd 
Michig-an Infantry. Not on ofticial list. 

No. 535. Private Daniel P. M(*ado\vs, Compain I), 1 0th 
Cnited .States Infantry, died Aug. 14th. iSqS. 

No 536. Private CorneliLis Ilenk, II. C, C .S .\rmy, di<(l 
Aug. 15th, 1S9S. 

No. 537. Private Artliur Malehan, Company I.. 33rd 
Michigan Infantry, died Aug. I7lh. iSc)S. 

No. 53S. Prixate .Mhert P. \'an .Slyke. Compan\- .\. 33rd 
Michigan Infantry, died .\ug. 17th, 1898. 

No. 539. Private Prancis .Smith, Company II, oih ( )hio 
Volunteer Infantry, died Aug. 23th, 1S9S. 

No. 540. Private James lulgar, Comi)an\- I, ist Illinois 
Volunteer Infantr\-, died .\ug. 26th, 1898. 

No. S41. Private John (i. O'Prien, Compan\- ( i, 1 st Illinois 
Infantr\-. died Aug. 20th, i8()8. 

No. 542. Private 1 leiiry ChuPbs,^-^ Compan)- 1 1, 24th Cnited 
States Infantry, died Aug. 30th, 1898. 

No 543. Teamster Michael Fe«^ny (or Penne)). I nited 
States Ami)-, died Sept. 2d, 1898. 



292 fiilavtial Graves 

No. 544. Private Effie J. Bassctt/-' Company G. 24th 
United States Infantry, Sept. 6th. 1S98. 

Xo. 545. Prixate ("iu\- \i. Poole, L Company, 33rd Michi- 
gan hifantry. died Sept. 13th, 1898. 

Xo. 546. Sergeant Timothy K. McCarthy, Company A, 
13th I'nited States hifantry, died Aug. 24th, 1898. 

Xo. 547. Private Mosley Gaines, Company B, loth liiited 
States Int'aiury, died Aug. 19th, 1898. 

Xo. 548. Private Robert L. Armstrong, Company H, 8th 
Ohio X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 17th, 1898. 

Xo. 549. Private Humphrey Montgomery,'-' Company A, 
24th I'nited .States Infantry, died Aug. 17th, 1898. 

Xo. 550. Private Norman J. G. MacMillan, Company M, 
71st Xew York Infantry, died Aug. 20th, 1898. 

Xo. 551. .Sergeant Henry E. Connors, Company G, 33rd 
Michigan Infantry, died Aug. 21st, 1898. 

Xo. ^^2. Musician Frank P2. .Sharp, Company C, 33rd 
Michigan X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 19th, 1898. 

Xo. 553. Private Robert M. Zigler, Company I, i6th Cnited 
States Infantry, died Aug. 22nd, 1898. 

Xo. 554. Private Thomas H. Mulford, Company L, ist Illi- 
nois Infantry, died Aug. 25th, 1898. 



Original Field Cemetery at Siboney 

At tlie foot of the .Siboney Ridge where the valley road 
turns northward to the Imltlefield of Las (iuasimas and so on 
towards Santiago, and just outside the village of .Siboney is a 
smaller cemetery containing some twenty graves, most of them of 
unknown soldiers. It is pr()bal)le that the; greater part of these 
died from sickness, pc.-rhaps some h*om )cllow lever, although 



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thc- sutiercrs from that disease were sciU lo lli<' Ccncnil Hos- 
pital anion- the hills, and were hurifd in the c('mctrry th<Tr. 
But the records indicate that at least two were killed in batth- 
on luly ist, in the demonstration of Gen. Duffield's brii(ad(' of 
IMichio-an soldiers against A-uadores. The cemetery is located 
about'one hundred and fifty yards northwest from th.- railroad 
bridge at Siboney. The list is as follows : 

Xos. 555-55g. I'nknown American Soldiers. .\ tew ot 
the unknown soldiers in the list have. I believe, been recently 
identified in the ( hiartermaster's Deijarimeiu. 

No. 560. Private |ohn b^-anklin, Company 1., 
oan X'olimteers. 
Died July i st. 
1898. Buried in 
the same grave 
as the next fol- 
lowing. 

No. 561. Pri- 
vate Ferdinand 
Seabright, Com- 
]) a n \' b , ;^ 3 r d 
Michigan X'olun- 
teers. Died July 
1st iScjS. l)urie<l 
in the same grave as lohn Franklin. These- two men w^n; th." 
only fatal casualties in the demonstration made by ( .en. Dultield 
against the Spanish fort at Aguadores which tormed part ot the 
general movement of Jnl\ 1st. iSt^S. 

Xos. 562-56S. I'nknown .\merican Soldier^. 
No. 569. Private Otis ^I. N.arr, Comj-any K, ,^^''^1 ^I'^l^'" 
oan X'olunteer bifantry. died July nth. 1S98. 




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C/itir/ of binioh in the Cc-inclcry at Siboney. 




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jfallcn 1fxn*oci? of tl>c t->OLH">ital 295 

Xo. 570. Lit-iittMiaiit W'illiciin C". \far\', isl I'liitcd States 
Infantr)'. Tills ^rave was dcsis^natctl 1>\- Mr. I). II. Khock-s and 
is charted by him under the name of I.ieiil. W illiam C. Near)-, 
J St United States Infantry. There is no other rctcord. and on 
referring" to the coj)}' of the official list in my possession 1 do 
not tind such a name. 

Xos. 571-570' 57 J- I nknown American Soldiers. .\o. 
573 has been erroneously duplicated in the chart and the luim- 
ber 574 omitted, 

Xos. 575-576. \n an isolated spot near the railroad track 
and about one hundred \ards east of tlu' railroad depot arr two 
unknown American soldiers. 



Burials from the Nautical Club Hospital 

At the foot of the City of Santiago is the handsome boat- 
house of the Xautical Club. It is set well out in the water. 
and is united b\- a brido'e to the .\lamcda, a broad l)oulc\ard 
that skirts the ba\-. When I hrst visited the place, luly 25. 
1S9S. it had already be(;n converted into a hospital. In thcr 
large boat-room, about thirty by fort)- feet in dimensions, many 
soldiers were lyinL;' on the bare lloor in their soiled uniforms. 
sufferiuL;- from calentiu-a. t\-phoid and m.darial teNtM's. 1 here 
were no cots, no pillows, no bed coverings, and n-iany ol the 
men were without blankets. The sick were closely crowded, 
and la\- on the i)orches. and even on the landing stage. It 
was a heartrending sight. Ihit cots ami nuulii-al suppliers were 
soon furnislK'd. Uad as affairs were here, the sick at least had the 
advantage of a dr\- tloorand a roof over their heads, which those 
in the camp outside of the city did not . t that time possess. .\ 
few. indeed, had erected baiuboo shacks, covered with palm 



296 



/iDartial Graves 



leaves, and provided with a raised frame of slats, that elevated 
the body above the damp ground (big-. 155); but this device 
was not common. 

The interments from this hospital, which continued until 
the final breaking up and concentration in the Spanish Military 
Hospital, were made in the City Cemetery. I believe that all 
were buried in coffins by the quartermaster, whose duty it is to 
attend to such matters. A record has been kept of the 



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¥n:. 155 
A bamlwo camp col in the Fifth Army Co/ps. 



sections in which interments were made, and all have been 
identified without much difficult)-. But in a number of cases 
the record is indefinite, or lacking in some details. 

During the last two nionths of its occupation by our 
Government, the Nautical Hospital was under the care of 
women nurses, whose efficient sc^rvices did much to comfort the 
inmates, and undoubtedly saved many lives. Among those 
who wrought in this kindly work were Miss Hrooks.a niece of a 



jfallcu 1bcvoe£5 ot the If^oi^ntal -i-** 

prominent r>nlish in.Tch;inl in Sanli;i-<>: Miss I'ackanl. a 
daiio-htcr of ex-Governor Packard, and Miss Annie Wheeler, 
the tlaucrhter of Maj.-Gen. Joseph Wheeler, who carries in her 
slicrht frame as courageous a spirit as that which animates her 
gallant and distinguished father. 

The record of this fan^/il\- fiirnislvs an int< -resting illustra- 
tion of the inlluence of the Spanish-American war in demon- 
strating the progress made in healing the breach caused by the 
Civil War between the North and the South. Mai.-( .en. 
Wheeler's recent service is justly regardcnl as highly \aluable 
to the countrv. A son bearing his name, an ..fhcc-r in the 
regular army, served with him on his staff during th.- Santiago 
campaign, '.\nother son served in the navy <m th<- 1 . S. S. 
Co/unihia, and his daughter Annie faced hosp>ital levers m a 
torrid climate under conditions diat uitness alik<- to h.-r 
humanitv and her patriotism. 

No's77. George Keffer. packmaster. I . S. Army. He 
was assassinated In' a Cuban who stabbed him while- standmg 
upon the dock for some fancied insuli. .\ go^^l m-.nnment has 
been erected over his grave by his regimental Inends. 

No. ^78. Private Ralph Lahman. Company ( .. istlllmois 

Infantry, died . This name is not upon my official list. 

Xo' -yc). Corporal I'-inory lirown, lolh Inited States 

C'lvalrv di(-d . This name is not on the efhcial list. 

\o. 580. Private Ward .\. Willford. Companv P., Sth ( )hio 
Volunteer Infantry, died .\ug. 13th, 1S9S. 
Xo. 5S1. Inknown .\merican .Soldier. 

No. sS2. Private bimes McGowan. Compaiu I', Cnited 
States Iniantrv, died luK :olh. iSoS. 

X,). :^S;,.' Private- Richard >, K(-<pia. Company L, c^h 
Cnited States Infantry. I'.ied .\ug. lolh, 1 S98. 



298 



/IDavtial Graves 



\o. 584. Private Andrew Thornton, Company Cx, 9th 
United States Infantry, died July 29th, 189CS. 

No. 585. Private Melville B. Huffman, Company C, 9th 
United States Infantry, died Au^'. i st, 1898. 



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Fig. 156 

Xo. 586. Corporal Oliver Harris, Company I ), 2nd Massa- 
chusetts Infantry. 

Xo. 587. justice 11. ll)amr()d, or Hamrotl. 

Xo. 588. Civilian C. C. I^an^s. 

Xo. 589. ist Lieut. WillianT (i. Pdliott, Company p:, 12th 
I'nited States Infantry, died Aug', i ith, 1898. 

Xo. 590. Private Robert C. Guy, Company I), 2nd United 



Jf alien jllcroci? ot tbc illor^pital -'^h)- 

States Ca\alr\-. died Aul;'. 12, 189S. ( )ii Mr. Klmdcs' list thf 
name is " (irc)'." 

\o. 5gi. Prixatc William D. Maiilc\-, LOmpaii)- II, 16th 
Unit(;tl States infantry, died Sept. 4th. i S9S. 

No. 592. " Maiipin i 1 )isinterred)." The name thus 

marked on the register may be l'ri\at(; .Socrates Maiiplin. 
Comj)any G. 1st D. C. Infcintry. 

Xo. 59;v William Walters (or Walihus), ci\ ilian, .ipp.irt-nil) 
in Government service. 

No. 594. Private Bernard Mclh-ide, Company I, 2nd 
United States \'olunteer Infantr\', died Aug. 23rd, 189S. 

Xo. S95- Civilian Leopold 1 )ebend. Packer, United .States 
Army, died Aug. 26th. 189S. 

No. 596. Private Harry A. Dolli\-er. Compan} II, 2nd 
United States X'olunteer Infantry, died Aug. 2 7lh, 1S9S. 

Xo. 597. Private George .Sandoe, Com[>any G, 21st United 
.States Infantry, died Aug. 30th, i S98. 

No. 598. Private Luther Rusher. Compain- L, 5lh Lniied 
.States Infantr\-, died Aug. 30th, 1898. 

No. 599. Civilian Charles lohnson. ai)parenily in (lovcrn- 
ment service, died .Sept. 4th, i8g8. 

No. 600. Civilian hrank W. 1 )()Uglass, dwd >>r\)i. Sih. 
1898. Apparently in Government service. 

Xo. 001. Private CliMMrd T. Houghton, Companx' I", (^th 
United States Infantry, tiled September 6, 1898. 

Xo. 602. Private John Pillar, Comi)any D, 5th United 
States Infanlr\-, died Sept. n^th, 1 8g8. 

Xo. 603. Private P)enjamin C. IJoothby, Company P). 2ni\ 
United .States X'olunteer Infantry, died .Sept. loth, i8(;S. 

Xo. 004. Private John Xash, C( mpain- C. 5th I nited 
States Infantry, died Septeniber 12th, i8g8. 



jfallcu llxnoci? ct tbc ibotH'tital 



301 



Xo. 605. l*i-i\;it<' (".illxTt A. Im-dwp. C(»ini);iny I:, 5lh 
I'liitcl Siali-s IiitaiUry. (li<'<1 Scj)!. 1 2lh. iSc>S. 

Xo. hoh. l'ri\alc < )itn II. Scflcldl, Company P, ^ih 
I'liilc 1 States InlaiUry. died Sept. lOth. iS(,S. 

Xo. (^07. l'ri\atc; |ohn 1>. lUakc. (."ompain 1\ 5lh rniUxl 
States Infantry, died S(q)i. loth, i S(^S. 

No. 60S. Prixatc RolxTi 1'. C'orhin, COinpany I I, ^th rnitcd 
States Infantry, died Sept. 21st. iS(,S. 

Xo. 600. Private .\rthiir L. .\t\vood. LOinpaii)- C". 5th 
I'nited States Infantry, died Sept. rStli, 1 So.S. 

Xo. 610. I'ri\at(; lesse 1 )nL:an. C'ompaiU' L". Slh I nit«-d 
States Infantry, died .Sept. 25, 1S9S. 

Xo. 611. 1st Lieutenant Michael J. O'lirien. Conii)any .\. 
5th I'nited States Infantry, died Sept. lOtli, 1S9S. 

Xo. 6t2. Cai)tain (ire^ory Ilarrett. Company .\. lolh 
United Stales infantry, died .\u--. 7t]i, 1S9.S. .\ -ood m..niimfnt 
is erected over the remains, the site for th(; i^ravc havin-' been 
purchased by his re_ij;imental trieiids. 

Xo. 6(;. Ser^-eant August .\nderson, Company 1). 20th 
U. S. Infantry, died .\u--. 2()th, i SoS. 1 I )isinterr<Ml. ) 

Xo. 614. Charles l-'ranklin, cixilian. died about July 2Sth. 
1898. This name recalled an incident that L^reatly affected me. 
On mv first visit to the Ci\il Hospital as an Inspector, while 
o-oin-^- the rounds with several .Xmcrie.m Sisters ot Charity, who 
had come over with us on the ) <?/r to nurse the sic'<. we had 
just passed out of one of tlu- male wards when wf heard some 
one eallino- behind us: •.\m< ricano. Americano I"' Oneof thi,- 
Cuban attendants stood at th(^ ward door wavino; his hands 
francticallw poinlin-' l)ackwaril. and shouting in Spanish. 

"There is an American sick in h<re." e.xplained my 
interpreter. 



302 nnartial Graves 

We turned back. A handsome mulatto lad lay upon a cot 
with l)oth arms outstretched toward us. his face radiant for the 
moment amidst his j^ains at the welcome greeting of our English 
tongue. He clasped my hands convulsively. 

"What is the matter?" I asked, soothingly. 

Nothing but " yaller janders." He would be all right if 
his head did not hurt so. His name w^as Charles Franklin, of 
Logan, Colorado, and he was " the boy" of some officer in the 
Seventh Ignited States Reofulars. 

His mind began to wander. The pain became so severe 
that he rolled back and forth upon his cot, then sat up 
upon it. 

" Let us pray." I kneeled at his bedside, and holding his 
hands, commended him, body and soul, to God. The soothing 
influence of the devotions stilled the distracted nerves. He was 
quiet wdiile I prayed. It was a striking scene. The kneeling 
chajilain : the patient seated on the side of the cot holding the 
chaplain's uplifted hands ; the good Sisters, American and 
Spanish, reverently bowing, as though joining in the prayer ; 
the tall form of the interpreter bending in their midst. The 
hospital nurses looked on with subdued mien. The sick from 
their surrounding cots turned to gaze at us, their wan, pallid 
faces, lit up by a moment's curiosity. I left the lad with the 
apostolic benediction on his brow and turned away. 

" It is our only case of yellow fever," said the Spanish 
Sister Superior. " He will surely die ; he is in the last stage." 

"Yes," just a little startled, perhaps, said our American 
Sister Mary. " I could tell it by the eyes." 

" And by the odor ! " added Sister Apollonia. 

"And, my good doctor," said Sister Regis, running up to 
me, " )'ou have been exposed to the infection! Wm held his 



jfallcn fl^cvoci? ot the U^oc^Mtal •"••> 

hantls. \()u look liis breath. lUil do not fear. It was an act 
oi charit\' and our I lea\'enly leather will surcK' care lor \'oii. " 

Ne\erthel(^s.s, the kind lad\- uhijipcd owl ol sonic mysterious 
receptacle about her tlress a bottle of disinfectant stutl. and 
bidding me hold out m\- hands, filled the |)alms and made me 
lave the skin. I.ike()li\er Crom\\(dl, she " iruslcd in ( lod," 
but kept her remedies ready. Good theolog)', and g(»'»d prac- 
tice, too. 

Poor lad ' He was isolated at once and three doctors 
"sat" iijx)!! him when he died. Two said yellow lever, one 
said malignant malarial. All the same, his campaign in Cuba 
is ended, and. let us hope, his spirit rests in peace. .\s to his 
body, it was carried to the Santiago Cemeterx and crcmat<(I, 
and the incident of my meeting widi him vividly recurred when 
I saw his name among the American soldiers buriecl there. 

The following, Nos. 615-629 inclusi\e. are the names ol 
soldiers of the Twent)' fourth bifantr)- ])uri(Hl in the cemetery 
•of the General Hospital, commonly known as the yellow le\(r 
hospital at Siboney, whose graves ha\e not been located. (See 
page 284.) 

No. 615. Private W. M. M. Perry. Company .\, 24111 P. S 
Infantry. Died at Fort Douglas, Utah.'-' 

No. 616. Private Budtl Ashton, C'o;n])any A, 24th P. .S. 
Infantry. Died in hospital, Ih'ooklyn, \. \ •• 

No. 617. Private b'rank Carter, Company .\, 24th P. S. 
Infantry. Died in hospital, Prooklyn, X. \ .■' 

Xo. 61S. Private |ohn E. MeaK, Company C, 24th P. S. 
Infantr\-. Died in hosi)ital. Hrookl\-n, .X. Y., Oct. 9, 1898.=^= 

*'rhe notes ai)pended to the names marked with an asterisk (*) have been kindly 
furnished at my request by the i^luartermaster-Oeneral All except Terry, NeL-in, Kause and 
Johnson are buried in the Cypress Hills National C.-metery. HroDklyn. N. ^■. 



304 fmavtial Graves 

No. 619. Private J. Nelson. Company C, 24th U. S. 
Infantry. Not on the official roll of the reo-iment.'-= 

No. 620. Private John Garrett. Company D. 24th U. S. 
Infantry. Died at Camp Wikoff. Montauk Point, L. I.=^= 

No. 621. Private Edward Penn, Company D, 24th U. S. 
Infantry. Died Aug. 5th. 1898. 

No. 622. Private |ames J. Puford, Company E, 24th U. S. 
Infantry. Died at Bedloe's Island, N. Y.'^' 

No. 623. Private Richard H. Brown, Company F, 24th U. 
S. Infantry. Died at Camp Wikoff, L. I.'-' 

No. 624. Private Herman Rause. Company G. 24th U. S, 
Infantry. Xot on the official roll of the regiment.'^' 

No. 625. Private William J. Mosely, Company H. 24th 
United States Infantry. Died Aug. iith. 1898. 

No. 626. Private Mortimer Spencer, Company H, 24th U. 
S. Infantry. Died Oct. 5th, 1898. 

No. 627. Private William Griggs, Company H, 24th U. S, 
Infantry. I )ied at Camp Wikoff, L. I. 

No. 628. Private Carter Boggs, Company H, 24th U. S. 
Infantry. 

No. 629. Corporal Lewis Johnson, Company H, 24th U. S. 
Infantry. Reported as having died at Camp W'ikoff, but his 
name is not on the list of interments at that place. '^^ 

On the register of deaths in the P^irst Divisional Hospital 
(page 250) I found several names whose burial places I was not 
able to locate. I insert them here as a possible aid to hnal 
identification. 

No. 630. Private Charles McGown, Co. I), U. S. Infantry, 
died Aug. loth, 1898. 

No. 631. Pri\at(; John O'Connor. Co. K, 71st New York 
Infantry, died Aug. i ith, 1898. 



JFallcii Ulcioct^ ot Wc jllof^pital ■:<»"» 

No. 6},2. I'rixau- Aniolel (jcisinaii. ( O. K. 71st \c\v \ urk 
In!antr\', died Au^-. 1 ^ih. 1 S9S. 

No. 633. l*rivatc CharlL's McCiitchcon, . died 

Aug. 14th, 1S9S. 

No. 634. Prixatc CharUts ( "loinbert, Co. I\, 71 si New NOrk 
Infantry, died Aui-. 1 0th, iS(;S. 



A Plan for Marking Soldiers' Graves 

In rc\ic\viiii4 the story ot the martial graves ot our tcdlcn 
heroes recortled in these pages, one is impressed with the lack 
of system and the absence of definite rt-sponsihility in th«' 
L'nited States army tor preserving the identity of the dead. 
The sufficient reason for making this fact i)uljlic is the hojx- 
that something satisfactory may result. Can a ]:)ractical mod<- 
be proposed ^ If so. can tlic War I )cpartm(MU be induced to 
adopt it ? With these questions in mind. 1 tried to find out 
what methods European nations ha\ e adopte^l tor ilesignatiiii^ 
the graves of their fallen soldiers and sailors. The information 
obtained is interesting, but gi\es no suggestion of \alue to 
determine a rule tor oursel\-es. 

In the army of Great Britain there is no rule laid down. 
The regimental authorities do what they can. according to cir- 
cumstances, and, when possible, the statt authorities organize 
proper gra\evards. The various ([uarlermasiers, as in our own 
arm\-. are expected to attend to the duty ot burial. The public 
sentiment of the army, however, insures for the most part 
reverent and proper action. .\t Hmdurman. after the victory 
of Gen. Kitchener, the site of a cemeter\' was selected lt\' the 
division staff", and threctiou was gi\cii to dig the graves ot the 
dead close to one another. This wa-. done, aiul crosses were 



306 /iDartial Graves 

erected reg-imentally. Subse(|uently a wall was built around 
the cemetery under divisional arrangements, but all crosses 
were put up by the regiments themselves. A proposition has 
been made, but not yet carried into effect, to erect plain cast- 
iron gravestones with the name and regiment of every man 
cast thereon in relief. In the Soudan, w'hich is a Mohammedan 
country, the ol^jection to cross-markers is that the inhabitants 
would i)ull them up and destroy them from religious motives. 
On the contrary, it w^as aptly suggested by Gen. Lawton that 
all the headboards placed at the graves of our fallen soldiers in 
Cuba be marked with a cross, in order to make more certain 
respectful treatment through the popular reverence for that 
Christian symbol. 

The system prevalent in the German army is to mark the 
fraves with an iron cross, on which is cast in relief the sentence, 
" Hier ruhen tiipfere Krieger" — Here rests a brave warrior. 
Xo names are added, except in a few cases, which are doubtless 
done by private enterprise. I am informed that the crosses 
are put up by patriotic societies called " Kriegerverein " — 
Soldier Societies, and not by the Imperial Government. 

Hius it appears that in the armies of Great Britain and 
Germany, at least, the interment and making the graves of the 
dead are not governed by any definite regulations, but are left 
to regimental or private enterprise. In this respect we are not 
behind, but rather in advance of these nations. The direction 
of the President in his general order of August 6, 1898, and 
the prompt action of the Secretary of War on the same day in 
personally instructing, and on the following day issuing an 
order to a detached army officer to make preliminary investiga- 
tions, which was followed up by sending a special agent with 
competent aids to locate and i)lainly mark every grave, show 



jfallcu 1bcvoc5 of the 1l?oi>;ntal •"-••7 

an official interest in this matter and a tlegree of synipatliy nut 
surpassed, and. indt^ed, not equalled, by other o^overnnients. 
This fact, however, should not encouracre content with our 
unorL''anized condition, but rather should incite us at once to 
take the lead of sister nations in abandoniuL;- hap-ha/ard wa\"s 
and in adopting- re_n'ulated methods. 

As matters now stand the Ouartermaster is responsildc for 
the interment of the dead. It is his duty on due information 
oiven by the officers of tin; line or medical staff, to assuun- th(j 
functions of an undertaker in ci\il lite, antl see that the deceas(xl 
is decently buried. With troops in quarters this plan works 
well enough. lUit it has been shown how the i)lan breaks down 
in the face of such conditions as the b'ifth Army Corps had lo 
meet in Cuba. PracticalK'. on the battlefield th<-' work of bury- 
ing the dead was attended to by line officers with their burial 
details. In the field hospitals, as for example, that ot the I'irst 
Division on the bank of the Aguadores under charge ot Major 
-Surgeon Wood. inltM'ments were necessarily made b\- an 
overworked and inadequate hospital corps. I he same was 
true of the hospitals in the field after the surrender, as. for 
example, at the General bield Hospital near th(; Keina 
Mercedes quarters, where the hospital stewards, under chreclion 
of the Medical Department, attended to burials, which were all 
made without cofhns on account of the difficult)- ot r(jaching a 
Ouartermaster. 

No one was officially resi)()nsil)le for marking the graves of 
the dead at any time or in an\- place. Tiiis important dut\- was 
left to the voluntary impulses of the burial party, or of the hos- 
[>ital workers, or to the good will of comrades personally inter- 
ested in the dead, who chanced to lean where the dead were 
btu'ietl before it was too late to identi/y the grave. As a 



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consequence, a large number of our gallant dead on the fields 
before Santiago were laid in unmarked graves and are classed 
among the unknown. How many of these there are can only 
be conjectured. lUit the author's estimate is that from one- 
tenth to one-fifteenth of the whole number have not been and 
cannot be positively identified. This fact is certainly a reproach 
to our military government, and its recurrence should be made 
impossible by the adoption of some adequate system. 

It has been suggested that this duty be assigned to chap- 
lains. The suggestion is worthy consideration, and these offi- 
cers would willingly undertake the duty, and would certainly do 
it well if their presence in the hour of necessity could be made 
certain. During the Ci\il War such kindly ofhces, and many 
others relating to the dying and the dead, were attended to by 
regimental chaplains, to whom they were left by a general con- 
sensus of all departments of the military service. There is a 
difficulty in the way which must be considered. In our regular 
army, as now constituted, chaplains are substantially post offi- 
cers. They are not attached to regiments and battalions. It is 
true that some regular army chaplains were detailed for duty 
with various regiments during the Spanish-American campaign, 
and did most effective, satisfactory and self-denying service. 
Hut our army has not yet reached a stage which gives warrant 
that chaplains will always be on hand to direct the mournful but 
necessary duties due the dead. If this difficulty could be 
removed, I would have no hesitation in saying that all that 
relates to the burial and identification of deceased soldiers 
should be committed to the hands of the chaplain, and his work 
be so organized, and his authority so detailed and fortified that 
he would be supported in the discharge of these duties, as are 
other staff officers in their respective spheres. 



JFallcu "illcroci? ot the "illoiH^tal :;<>;» 

If chaplains arc iioi in he considered as i>racticaljlc factors 
in the situation, the (hit\ of securing- j)ositive identification of 
all the dead in hattle or in hos])ital should he (-ntrustcd to the 
Medical l)ej)arlinciu. To this end souk- iion c< )nuiiissi()necl 
officer ot the Hospital Corps should he dctaihil for this special 
service, and should be so adctpiately supported that he would 
be able to discharge his duties efficiend\-. The reasons ar<? 
plain enouL;h. \o section of an army e\cr nio\cs without the 
presence ot a surL^eon and a detail of hospital workers. Sol- 
diers are supposetl to be able to tlispense with chaplains. Hut 
no one fancies that the)- can l;ci on without <|uarterinasters. 
commissaries and surgeons. The 1 lospital C"or])s is therefor(.' 
always at hand. Moreover, a larL^'-e pro]»oriion of ileaths occur 
in hospitals ami under the eyes of th(.' hos])ital corps. This is 
true e\-en on the battlefield, where, as a rule, thos<' who die 
from mortal wounds are in excess of those killed in action. ( )f 
course, in the case of those who die iVom camp diseases (and 
these tar exceed the number of killed and morialK- wounded), 
the surgeons and the hosj)ital corjjs have amjjle opportunitv to 
know the names and regimental connections of tiie deceased. 
Indeed, it is part ot their duly lo make such recortl as soon as 
a sick man is placc-d under ilu-ir care. 

As has already been shown, necessity actually comi)elsthc 
Medical Department to takt; chari^c (»f burials in manv cases. 
Such at least was true of the I'it'th .\rm\ COrjJS in Santiago tie 
Cuba. All thin-s considered, therefore, it would seem most 
practical to entrust this dut}' to the Medical Department, .uid 
to make the chief surgeon responsible tor carrxiuL^ it out in 
such a way as shall meet the approl)ation of the Government. 
and satisJN the natural affections anl demands of friends of 
the dead. 



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A valuable item in this service is a convenient marker to 
be used by burial parties. A review of our soldiers' methods 
of markincr their comrades' graves, as fully presented in this 
book, is most interesting and, indeed, touching. But it certainly 
must raise the suggestion that in many cases they are most 
inadequate. An inscription penciled upon the hewn surface 
of an adjoining tree, or scratched upon a shaved stake, or cut 

rt on a cross rudely made from a 

y^ cracker or ammunition box, 

may be picturesque, but it has 
the disadvantage of being 
unsubstantial and unreliable. 
The identification of our 
heroes' bodies should be placed 
beyond the contingency of 
such makeshifts. I have pro- 
posed in a report to the War 
Department that a simple and 
portable metallic marker be 
provided, which can be attached 
to the body of the dead and 
placed upon the grave, thus 
giving double security for iden- 
tification. A model of this 
marker was submitted ; of course, as a suggestion of what 
might be prepared in the Department by persons more familiar 
with the requirements of the situation. The marker consists 
of a strip of metal (l^g. 158) of which tlie lower part is to be 
folded up against the inner surface of the upper part. The 
upper piece has two narrow projecting edges, which are also 
folded against the inner surface. Thus is formed a receptacle 





Fig. 158 

y/rt« of tablet to mark 

soldiers' graves. 



Fig. 159 

Gra7'e marker 

folded and 

filled. 



jfallcu mcvoct^ ot tbc 'jIloiH^ital 



.ill 



BURIAL CARD 
U.S.A. 

*/AH£ 



CofREQT 



meofAW 



l-u;. lOo 
Burial t arJ. 



for a card wliich is slipixnl in Ixjtwccii iIk; hciil ccIl^cs nt the 

upper piece ami the inner snrlacr ol the raised lower piece. 

AccompanyinL; the marker is a printed card on which ar<' left 

on one face blanks to receive the name, company and date 

of death of the deceased, and on the reverse memoranda, with 

one or more names of l)urial party. A projection trom the 

upper part of this metallic folder is pierced with a hole uhirh 

permits it to be huny- ujion a copper rod to he 

thrust into the j^rave, when it will present the 

form of k'ig. 159. A lar-e numl)erot markers ol 

this kind can be carried upon the persons ot two 

or three hospital workers. The cards can reatlily 

be filled up with a pencil and will be protected from 

weather changes, and if i)laccd in the clothing of 

the dead within a reasonable time would be 

decipherable. A marker of this sort which could 

be placed at the head of a mound would remain 

for a considerable length of time without being 

disturbed or detaced. At all events, long enough 

to permit identification when greater leisure will 

permit. 

The author's sense of justice to our soUliers 
will not be satisfied without reference to another 
matter closely related to the above. That those 
who fell upon the field of battle should have been buried without 
cofhns, even of the rudest sort, was an ordinary and necessary 
result of war. That some of those who dieil in the hosjiitals 
should have been buried in the same way was perhaps also 
inevitable. But it should have been made possible that those 
who died in the hospitals a month m- more after the lighting 
had ceased, could be buried in the ordinary way ot civilized 



MEMORANDA 



INOOfMn 



SiGftElL. 



In;. 101 

Rt-.ose I'' !ai<:(. 



312 /IDarttal Graven 

men. \'et witli the exception of those who died at the Nautical 
Hospital, estabhshed in the Boat Club-house on the edge of 
the harbor, all our dead, everywhere around Santiago, up to 
the middle of Septemb(;r, were buried in the clothes in which 
they died, wrapped about in only a sheet or a blanket. During 
the same period many of the people of Santiago were burying 
their dead in coffins, and only the humblest poor and those who 
were carried in the dead cart from the Civil Hospital, were 
buried uncofhned or were burned. 

Admitting that circumstances justified such facts, and that 
they are to be excused on the ground that no provision had 
been made by Congress or other authority, it will certainly com- 
mend itself to the war administration that arrangements should 
at once be made by which no such conditions shall obtain in the 
future, in peace or in war, in our new possessions or elsewhere. 
Capt. Gonzales, of the Quartermaster's Department at San- 
tiago (and possibly also his predecessor, though I do not know 
that), when a[)plied to b)' the authorities of the Nautical Hos- 
l)ital furnished cofhns for burial, as was his duty. No doubt he 
would have done the same for the authorities of the field hos- 
pitals established just outside the city. But apparently there 
was no one whose duty it was to attend to this matter, and, 
therefore, it was neglected. It seems a gruesome thing to sug- 
gest or to arrange for, and yet as sickness and death are inevit- 
able, and burial must follow^ death, there is no reason wdiy the 
same foresight that provides for other contingencies, should not 
also i)rovide for this, and the ( Hiartermaster's Department of 
the Government be directed to i)rcpare and distribute sectional 
parts of cofhns or burial boxes that can easily and quickly be 
put together. Regard for the feelings of the friends of soldiers 
and the respect which is commonly accorded the dead should 
lead to some such provision. 



Chapter X 
Our Cuban Allies 



o 



WILD is the spot, Macaura, 

In which they have laid thee low— 
The field where thy people triumphed 

Over a slaughtered foe ; 
And loud was the banshee's wailing, 

And deep was the clansmen's sorrow, 
When with bloody hands and burning tears, 

They buried thee here, Macaura. 

Farewell to thy grave, Macaura, 

Where the slanting sunbeams shine, 
And the briar and waving fern 

Over thy slumbers twine ; 
Thou whose gathering summons 

Could waken the sleeping glen ; 
Macaura, alas, for thee and thine, 

'Twill never be heard again. 

— Mary Downinc;. 




Our Cuban Allies 

1' seemed just that the Ciihan soldiers who had tallcn 
in battle duriiiLi the period subse(iueiU to the .\ni«ri- 
can invasion, should receixt- trom our ( "loxcrnincnl 
some token of its appreciation ot their service as 
allies. That the grraves of such should be marked apj^eared 
the least that we could do. In the little cemetery at (iuantaii- 
amo Bay, in which are buried the mariiK^s w lio tell during; our 
first fight on Cuban soil, is the graxc of one Cuban soldier 
killed in that engagement. lb- lies near the grrave of Chiet 
Yeoman Ellis, killed July 3d on the Brooklyn. Two other 
Cuban soldiers who died subsequently, are also Iniried there. 
These graves are all unmarked. This is so sharpK in contrast 
with the graves of the Americans, that 1 venturetl to speak ot 
it to Col. Enriquez Thomas, the Commantler of the Cuban 
Ijattalion. then encamped on the beach, lie shrugged his 
shoulders and s])()kc- of poxcrty. 1 insist'/d that it would be a 
slight thing- to prepare some simi)le marker showing the name, 
date and place of death of each of the Cuban heroes. 

A story told me by Lieut. Wise, of the oth C S. Infantry. 
deei)ened my interest in this subject. lie said that as their 
regiment was deplo\-ing into the San Juan i)lain, previous to 
their charge upon the ritlge. they came in contact near the 
"Bloody Bend" with a barbed wire eiUanglement which greatly 
embarrassed them. Suddenly there appeared on the scene a 



516 /IDartial Graves 

gig-antic negro, a Cuban soldier. No one knew whence he 
came. He drew his machete, and heaved its blade against the 
wire with such vigor that it parted as though it had been cheese. 
Again and again fell the blade until an opening had been made 
in the entanglement, through which the Americans deployed 
into the held. Then came the rush, in which the Cuban giant 
led, over the plain, up the hill, in the van of the American line, 
to the very crest, where he fell instantly killed by a Spanish 
bullet. W'liat became of the body of this hero in ebony my 
iiitormant did not know. He disappeared as he had come, 
unknown, unheralded. Perhaps he was buried as a supposed 
Spaniard in the trenches with the Spanish soldiers whom he so 
cordially hated. Perhaps his is one ot the unmarked graves 
on the high slope of San Juan's historic ridge. The specula- 
tion came to mind as I looked on these "unknown" graves, 
and I greatly wished to solve the query. At all events, the 
story and my reflections thereon revived the wish to erect some 
memorial mark at the graves of those of our allies who died 
heroic deaths. 

At Caney I asked the Cuban local guide about graves ot 
his soldier countrymen. He knew of only two. On the west- 
ern side of the town, perhaps a half mile from the fort, he led 
us to a place near the crossing of two trails, which seemed 
simply a clump of rank wild shrubbery. The guide found the 
exact spot with difficulty, and when at last it was located, he 
pushed aside the dense growth, higher than our heads, and 
showed us a yellow patch of fresh earth. It was not even a 
mound, simply an irregular bit ot mother earth that showed 
signs of late disturbance. Beneath that patch of yellow clay 
slept th(* remains of a Cuban officer, Lieut. Nicolas Franco, 
who fell in the battle of Caney while fighting side by side with 



Ouv CuLniu B.[iK€> "i" 

the Americans for the capture of the fnrt on l-.l \ i^o ll«-i_L;lu. 
I gave his iiain<' aiul tin- localil)' Id Mr. Khixlcs, in charge ol 
the work of tlcsi^natin^' sol(li(*rs' L^ra\cs, aii<l asked that this 
spot l)e marked as reverentK' as it it were the ^ra\<" ot an 
American soldier. ■•■ 

1 was sufficientK' interested in this subject to make ii die 
occasion of a visit, September loth, i SqS, to (ien. Castillo at 
his head([uarters on the San Luis Railway, at IJonialo. lb- 
promised to interest himself personally in the aftair. and belie\cd 
that manv of the Cuban dead could be identified. 1 he reports 
of deaths, he said, were accurately kept, but there woukl be 
difticultx' in ('.\act identification of j;ra\-es, as no markintr system 
obtained, ami their arm\- sentiment did not eniorce a x'olunlary 
substitute as with us. 1 le informed me that since / lie .IniiridHi 
invasion there had been lost in battle in his own l)riL;ade sixty- 
seven killed and wounded, of whom twenty tw(t were killed 
outrioht and four of the woundetl subsecpieniK' died. Cuban 
soldiers, he said, had been lost in enL^agements at Guanlanamo. 
Guasimas, at 1^1 Pozo, Caney, La Caridad in C.en. Sanciu-s" 
bri^i-ade, and at Marianajcx One man was wounded at l)aifiuiri. 
ancl taken on board the OlivclU\ where his arm was amputated. 

I showed (ien. Castillo a rou-h \)\\\v\ of the fiL^hl at Las 
Guasimas, and asked him to locate thereon the L;ra\es ot the 
Cuban soldiers, which he did. The spot is to the ri<^du ot the 
eastern or valley road as one approaches tVom Siboney. south 
of the spot where are buried seven soldiers ol the lirst l\<-L;ular 
Cavalry and one of the Tenth Cavalr\-. (See Map, Chap. \ 11. 
I'i.!^'- 97-' ' asked the editor of the /<v'r'tv//r, a loccd SantiaL;o 
Cuban journal, to call his eounlrx men's attention to this sui)ject 
and request their co-operation in ide-uityinL; the burial places ot 

*Mr. Rhodes has informed thai this has been done. 




P'lG. 162 

llic grave of the Ctiban Lieulcnant, Nicolas Franco, on the battlefield 0/ Caney. 



Our Cuban BUics •■;r» 

their heroic compatriots. Ihis he di^l in an article entitUnl 
"Tombs of Martyrs," caUino- tor information, and promising" to 
transmit me any facts received. 1 have heard nothing;" from this 
appeal, but venture to hope that the measure therein sui^-gested 
may yet be carried out. 

Amono- Cubans who fell during the brief Aint-rican cam- 
paign should be recorded those who were killed at b^l Pozo, 
and whose bodies may be interred in one of the large graves 
or trenches near that point in the cemetery of the General 
Field Hospital. When Grimes' battery was ordered to occupy 
this height to shell San Juan Ridge, a body of Cuban Infantry, 
along with the Rough Riders antl other American troops, were 
directed to occupy a position in the rear : for what reason is 
not apparent, as they could hardly ha\ e been regarded under 
the circumstances as supports of the battery, there lieing no 
enemy near by likely to launch a charge upon the guns. The 
answering shells of the Spanish batteries on San luan 1 leight, 
which were evidently aimed to dismount the American guns, 
unfortunately fell among the Cubans, killing and wounding a 
large number. .Surely these, as well as the American soldiers 
who suffered by the same missiles, are to be reckonccl among 
the casualties of that important day. From this standpoint, if 
from no other, it ajjpears that the blood of the Cuban soldiers 
was mingled with that of their American allies ui)on the vic- 
torious held of San luan, as it had been at the initial fighting at 
Guantanamo, at the storming of Cane\andin the reconnaissance 
which preceded the battle of Las Ciuasimas. 

There can be no doubt that an immense reaction occurred 
in the feeling of American soldiers towards Cubans after the 
engagements of July ist, 1898. Our soldiers left .\merica with 
their hats and coats covered with Cuban tlairs and Cuban 



320 finavtial Graves 

rosettes ; but when they returned, the Cuban colors were rarely 
seen. On the contrary, some of the victors had mounted 
Spanish rosettes. A fraternization had occurred between the 
American and Spanish soldiers, and in the degree that this 
increased in warmth the feelings of Americans cooled toward 
the Cubans. The reason for this, as stated to me on every 
hand by soldiers and ott^icers of the Fifth Army Corps, was the 
firm belief that the Cubans had taken no part in supporting the 
American armies, and on the contrary, had ignominiously looted 
their baggage and supplies even while fighting for Cuba's free- 
dom. These charges w^ere so universal and made with such 
manifest sincerity that it was impossible to reject them wholly. 
At least it was necessary to suppose some plausible ground for 
their existence. The explanation made by the friends of Cubans 
was that the plundering had been done by pacificos, the starved 
and destitute reconcentrados, who inhabited the farms and 
hamlets in the vicinity of the city. It was alleged that as the 
Cuban soldiers had no uniform, and could not be distinguished 
by their dress from non-combatants, the mistake was one most 
natural to be made. 

I took occasion of the call on General Castillo in Boniato 
frankly to state the facts and ask an explanation. My question 
was answered with the utmost candor. The General did not 
deny the change of feeling among Americans. He said sub- 
stantialK' that, however much he regretted it, he must allow 
that it was a natural mistake for the Americans to make under 
the peculiar circumstances. He denied the allegation with the 
utmost emphasis, and declared that none of his soldiers had 
engaged in looting the baggage or other properties of the 
Americans. 1 lis exi)lanation of the origin of the rumor which 
had L^TOwn into such gra\e proportions was as follows : 



Our Cuban Bllics •'■-^i 

1 he American arnu- was sutticiciuK' cinharrasscd by scant 
facilities tor transportation. lUit it had trains of pack mules, 
and some army wagons and amhulances, which measurably met 
the necessities of the situation. The Cuban army, on the con- 
trary, was wholly destitute of transportation. Waj^mns they 
had none. Their horses had disappeared. destro\cd or caj)- 
tured l)y the Spaniards and lost in battle, and perhaps in some 
cases killed and eaten. It therefore became necessary to 
oro;-anize a transportation train out of his men. 'Ihis was done. 
Sc|uads of soldiers under proper officers were sent from their 
camp, several miles away, to the seashore at Siboney. wlure the 
supplies were to be obtained from the American Commissaries. 
Boxes and bales and packages were placed upon the shoulders 
and backs of these men, and carried by the mountain trails and 
along the muddy roads through the tangled shrubbery across 
swollen streams to the place of operations. The ammunition 
required for the Cuban troops was deported in the same way. 
The Americans saw these lines of Cuban carriers going to and 
fro. and jumped to the conclusion that the\' had stolen and were 
carrying away American j)roperty. The rumor passed from 
niouth to mouth, and grew u.ntil the whole ami)' was |)ervaded 
with it. It was a most unfortunate circumstance, and the results 
had been extremely unhappy, and indeed, threatened for a tme 
to involve the American nation in a conflict as bitter and as 
bloody as the war with .Spain. I recei\cd a striking conhrma- 
tion of this from a half-tone reproduction of a j)hotograph ot 
just such a scene as described to me by (ieneral Castillo. ( )ne 
may therein see a squad of Cuban soldiers onenK" carrying 
boxes and bundles which bear the earmarks of the American 
commissary and onlnance de[)artments. 

Concerning the other explanation >)f the prejudice formed 



322 /IDartial Graves 

aniono- American soldiers against their Cuban allies, namely, that 
they did nothing to support the Fifth Corps during its campaign, 
it is enough to refer to the extended report of Major-General 
Nelson A. Miles, the commanding general of the United States 
Arm)-. He recites at length his interview with Gen. Garcia 
and the arrangements made for the support of Gen. Shatter's 
troops during the invasion. He calls attention to the fact that 
Gen. Garcia regarded his request for supports as orders, 
and promptly took steps to execute the plan of operation. He 
sent 3000 men to check any movement of the 12,000 Spaniards 
stationed at Holguin. A portion of this latter force started to 
the relief of the garrison at Santiago, but was successfully 
checked and turned back by the Cuban forces under Gen. 
Feria. He also sent 2000 men under Perez to oppose the 
6600 Spaniards at Guantanamo, and they were successful in their 
object. He also sent 1000 men under Gen. Rios against the 
6000 men at jNIanzanillo. Of that garrison, 3500 started to 
reinforce the garrison at Santiago, and were engaged in no less 
than thirty combats with the Cubans before reaching Santiago, 
and would have been stopped had Gen. Garcia' s request of 
June 27th been granted. What that request was Gen. Miles 
does not state, and the writer is not able to give the informa- 
tion. But at all events. Gen. Garcia is exonerated from blame 
for the unfortunate results. With an additional force of 5000 
men. (^en. Miles continues, Gen. Garcia besieged the garrison of 
Santiago, taking up a strong position on the west side and m 
close proximity to the harbor. He had troops in the rear as 
well as on both sides of the garrison at Santiago before the 
arrival of the Americans. Could anything be more explicit 
than this statement issued with the authority of the General m 
command of the American army ? Could any statement more 



Our Cuban Bllici^ :i'2:i 

thoroughly exempt the Cuban arni\' troiii the unjust, unfair and 
iintruthtul statements that found currency amonL,^ American 
soldiers ? 

This is n(jt all of the case. (ien. Miles, in rcciiinL; the 
account of the surrender of the Spanish troops 1)\- ( !< ii. ioral. 
explains what has seemed a strange circumstance to many p«r 
sons. The Spanish commander surrendered all the troojjs in 
the department of . Santiago de Cuba. man\- of whom wercr from 
seventy to one Iiundred miles distant, and against whom not a 
shot had been tired. What was the inducement to this act!* 
The report of Gen. Miles gives a satisfactory answ(n-. Refer- 
ring-, as he apparently does, to the conclusion of Gen. Toral, he 
says: "The acti\it\- ol the Cuban troops and their tlisjxjsition 
had been such as to render the Spanish positions exceedingly 
perilous." This is the testimony of the enemies of the Cuban 
soldiers, and it is most honorable to the activity, the courage 
and the resourceful tact and strategy of (ien. Garcia and his 
army. In other words, it was manifest thai the- .Spanish com- 
mander, with a laudable regard for his men, siuTcndered the 
troops of the entire department to the Americans, having gained 
by hard experience a wholesome respect for the military capacity 
of the Cubans, and a genuine fear that the jjrowess of their 
army alone would in the (mkI accomplish the defeat of the 
Spaniards outside of Santiago. He preferretl that pll the troops 
under his control should be siu'rendered to the Americans and 
share the benefit of repatriation, rather than be left to the risk 
ot defeat, capture or destruction by the insurgent Cubans. 

The above testimony, conclusive as it is. does not comi)lete 
the plea in behalf of the Cuban soldiers. Lieut. Jose Miiller. 
second in command of the naval f(>rces of the Province of 
Santiago de Cuba, wrote an account of the battles and capitu- 



324 /iDautial Graves 

lation of Santiago, which has been translated from the Spanish 
by the Office of Naval Intelligence in the United States Naval 
Department. He pays both directh' and indirecdy a striking 
tribute to the valor and efficiency of the Cuban soldiers, hi 
summing up the total casualties of the Spanish troops, and 
eivini>- a general statement of the enoao-ements of lulv ist, he 
makes this remark : 

" From the foregoing, it is reasonable to believe that when 
five hundred and twenty men maintained themselves at El 
Caney for ten hours, and two hundred and fifty at San Juan 
for four hours, if Escario could have been there that day, so 
that there had been three thousand men more in our lines, 
neither El Caney nor San fuan would have been lost, though 
attacked by almost the whole hostile army." 

And why did not Escario's column enter Santiago in time? 
It was delayed by our Cuban allies ! The statement of the 
number of men who defended the San Juan Ridge is not in 
accordance with the facts, although it may truly repre- 
sent the number behind the San juan Hill at the original 
formation of the Spanish line. Nevertheless, the judgment of 
this Spanish officer as to the value to Americans of the Cuban 
contingent that kept back Gen. Escario's reinforcing column is 
very clearly and strongly set forth. 

This opinion is justified by Chapter NNX of Lieut. Miiller's 
account, which gives the history of the march of Escario's 
column from Manzanillo to Santiago. The entire diary of the 
operations ot this forced march is given by the author. The 
commander, Col. Federico Escario, set out on the 2 2d of June 
with an army numbering three thousand seven hundred and 
fifty-two men, composed of infantry, cavalrymen, sappers and 
engineers, a section of a battery, and a number of medical 



Our Cuban lUlict^ 325 

officers dcstiiu-d lor the Santiago li()S])iials. I 1ut«' was aU<> a 
transportation train, with a lari^c amount ot extra rations and 
fifty beasts ol bin-dcn. llu.' trail over wliich tiie column 
marched, like those which ha\c Ix-en described in C()nn«'cti()n 
with the inoNenicnts ol onr own army, was scarcely more than 
a mountain track, o\( rwhirh the men w<tc comix-llcd to m.irch 
in single or double file. 1 he hi^h weeds had to be cut tlown 
at many places, and from the time the troojjs i)assed throuu;h 
I )on Pedro plain and arri\ed at the l(jrd ol the \ arro Ri\«T 
until the arrixal at Santiago, the)' were assailed ever\- day. and 
sometimes more than once a day. by our Cuban allies. 1 he 
latter were much out-matched as to numbers. Gen. Rios havin^^ 
only about one thousand men. and, of course, in the matter of 
equipment and military discipline, the sup<'riority ol the 
.Spaniards was more manifest. It would be needless. e\eii diil 
the purpose of this work justify, to give a full account of this 
march, which is ecpially creditable to both of the oi)posing 
forces. lUit a hw extracts from the di.iry will sutticiently 
indicate the tacts. 

" lune 23d. The column had been harassed all day, espe- 
cially while preparing to occupy the camp, when the enemy 
opened a steady fire which lasted ten minutes, killing one of our 
men and wounding three. =•= === =•= 24th. The column rising 
at reveille, and after drinking coffee, was again formed and 
oreanized bv six o'clock, when it continuetl its march, sustain- 

intr slitdit skirmishes in which it had one man killed and one 

^ ^ ... 

wounded. The cohnnn encamped on the banks ol the C ana- 

bacoa Ri\er. •■= '■'■■ 25th. The same as yestertiay. The 

column was harassed all day, always repulsing and dispersing 

the enemy, (^ne man was killed tl iring the skirmishes. 

June 26th. The entry of this day gives an account ot the 



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occupation of the city of Bayamo and the engagement at that 
place. It thus closes : " Our forces then returned to the camp 
at Almirante. The result of that day's work was not known 
at first, but it was afterwards known that the enem\- had nine- 
teen casualties, ten killed and nine wounded. '■■'■ '■'■ '■■■ June 
27th. The enemy, in greater nuniber than on the preceding day 
and in control of the heights which overlook the ford of the 
Jiguani River, tried to prevent Escario's forces from crossing. 
But their intention was foiled by Hank attacks protected by 
artillery fire. After the river had been forded, the march was 
continued without interruption to Cruz del Varey where the 
rebels appeared again, offering less resistance and were defeated 
once more. They seemed inclined, however, to continue to 
impede the march, which was apparent upon the arrival of our 
column upon the ruins of what was formerly the town of Baire. 
They were waiting there, and as soon as they espied the column, 
opened a galling musket fire which was silenced by the rapid 
advance of our vanguard. In this encounter Col. Manuel Ruiz, 
second in command of the column, was wounded, and his horse 
killed under him. Four soldiers were killed and five wounded." 
On the 29th, owing to the exhaustion of the troops, the 
column was compelled to encamp for the day. " It was so 
ordered." writes the chronicler, " owing to fatigue ; but the 
enemy kept harassing us and we had three more wounded." 
'•'- '-'- ■•■• On the 30th, before the ccjlumn was deployed, the 
Cubans froni entrenched positions opened fire, which was 
answered and silenced by the fu'st forces leaving the camp. 
The commander foresaw that such an attack would be repeateci, 
and in order to obviate casualties, changed the route and thus 
" eluding the ambuscade " arrived at the slopes of Ooncella, 
the ford of which was reached b)' a narrow pass and difficult 



Oiiu Cuban Bllici> ^527 

ravine. It a})|)ears. howcxcr. thai tlu- ciiciiiy was not wliolK' 
c'liuletl l)y this tlank nioxcincnt, tor ihtt chronicler records that 
" the rebels occupied positions here." When the column had 
been reconcentrated after fordinLj- the ( )oncella, they prepared 
to ford the Contramaestre River, where the Cubans were in 
waiting;', wliicli tact thc\' had announced thcniscKcs 1)\' written 
challenges and threats that they had left alon<: the road. The 
Spanish vanouard, commanded by Lieut-Col. I)arbon since the 
wounding" of Col. Ruiz, ad\anced to clear the way throut^di the 
narrow valley of the Contramaestre and to scale the steej) and 
tortuous ascent ot the opposite bank. .Sa\'s the chronicler, 
"The enemy had told the truth. They were in large numbers 
occupying- those favorable jjositions which would haxc been 
unpregnable if thev had been held b\' any one who knew how- 
to defend theni." W'itli a good deal ot rodomontade, in a sl\le 
which Americans characterize as " spread-eagleism " the writer 
tells how the Spanish column captured this position, and lound 
the Cubans in large numbers on the e.xtensive pastures beyond 
the Contramaestre. He writes "The enemy trietl to check 
our advance by a galling fire troni the slope ot a mountaiii 
where they were intrenched, controlling a line of twelve hun- 
dred metres, through which it was necessary tor us to pass 
unprotected." The Cubans were compelled to abandon their 
trenches, but the diar\- records that " in the fierce battles of 
that day Captain Ramiro, of the Alcaiitara Battalion, and nine 
privates were wounded and live killed." .So ended the moiith 
of June. 

At daybreak of luly ist. J-!scario's cohunn resumed the 
march and reached the ford of ( luariano Ri\iM", where the 
Cubans held advantageous positions from which the S|)anish 
vano-uard routed them without much resistance. The river was 



328 /iDartial Graves 

crossed after two ambuscades. Then followed insignificant 
skirmishes with outposts. At Aguacate Hill, the station of the 
Spanish heliograph, the Cubans were met in force. This is the 
record which the chronicler makes of that engagement: "Our 
soldiers manceuvred as though on drill, and advancing stead- 
ily two-thirds of the column entered the battle, and that hail of 
lead which strewed death in its path was not sufficient to make 
them retreat or ev^en check them. Calmly, with fearless hero- 
ism, they advanced, protected by the frequent and short fire 
of the artillery, and, skillfully guided by their chiefs, and with 
the cry ' Long live Spain,' charging with bayonets, they simulta- 
neouslv took those hei^fhts which were so difficult and dano-er- 
ous to scale, beating the enemy into precipitate retreat, so that 
they could not gather up their dead and wounded. Seventeen 
dead were left on the field, also ammunition of various modern 
types. There were moments during that battle when the tenac- 
ity of the enemy and the order with which they fought gave 
the impression that they might belong to our own column. To 
do the enemy justice it must be stated that they defended these 
positions with persistency and good order, and that they rose to 
unusual heights that day, making this the fiercest battle which 
we sustained on the march from Manzanillo to Santiago, and 
one of the most remarkable of the present campaign. Our 
casualties were seven dead and one lieutenant and forty-two 
privates wounded. Large pools of blood on the battlefield 
showed the severe chastisement which the enemy had suffered 
at our hands." Wlien the column had been reorganized the 
march was continued to Arraro I^lanco, where the night was 
spent. 

The next da\-. July 2d, the column proceeded to Palma 
Soriano, fighting the enemy all along the road, on both sides 



©ur CiU^an Bllics :'.-'!> 

of which the latter occupied uoc)cl [positions aiul <*n(lea\ orccl to 
detain the column at any price. At 3 p. m. the Spaniards 
reached Palma Soriano with a loss from the ])attle of that day 
of tour dead and six wounded. I'rom this i)oint a message 
was sent to San Luis by heliograph, announcing Escario's 
arrival to th(,' Commander-in-chief of the h'ourlh Spanisli .\nny 
Corps at Santiago, from whom a rei)ly was received that the 
United States forces were surrounding a i>art of the city and 
urging a forced march. At two o'clock in th(t night reveille 
was sounded and Escario's column resumed iis march, dela\t:d 
only by slight skirmishes. The advance guard reached the pass 
of Bayamo, where they had the first view of the city of San- 
tiago, and learned that the Spanish fleet " had gone out in 
search of death, the fate reserved for heroes." 

Between 10 and 11 a. m. of Juh' 3d, Col. I^scario, hearing 
the intense cannonading in the direction of the city organized a 
flying column, composed of the strongest men of each company, 
the entire cavalrymen and two artillery pieces, under the com- 
mantl of Lieut. -Col. Iiarbon. The cavalry \anguard of this 
flying column arrived in Santiago at 3 p. m., aiul the rest of the 
column reached the city at 4.30. The nucleus of the column 
with the accompanying train did not arrive until 9 and 10 
o'clock at night. The diary thus concludes : "At 10 o'clock 
the last rear guard entered the city of Santiago ti.^ Cuba and 
the battalions at once repaired to the diHerent trenches assigned 
to them by the Chief of Stafl' and from that time on they formed 
part of the forces defending the cit\ . The casualties during 
the whole march were one colonel, two officers and sixty-eight 
privates woundeci, and t\venty-se\ en killed. Twenty-eight 
thousand si.x hundred and seventy :\la.iser cartridges had been 
used and thirty-eight guns of artillery fired. 



SoO /IDavtial Graves 

In view of such a record as this, taken from an official 
report of the Spaniards, whose estimate of and ill-feehng toward 
Cubans is well understood, it is no longer tenable to say or to 
think that the aid of our Cuban allies was of inconsiderable 
\akie to the Americans during" the siege and capture of San- 
tiago. It is, of course, possible, and, indeed, probable, that we 
might have succeeded without such aid ; but any one who has 
thoroughly studied the situation, and especially the condition of 
our arm\- during the first two da)'s of )uly, must agree with the 
opinion ot Lieut. Mliller that had Escario's column reached 
Santiago in time to reinforce the Spanish lines, they would not 
have been captured by the Americans at that time. Our army 
would have been compelled to abandon the situation, and retire 
to the seaside to await reinforcements of men, provisions 
and munitions of war. If, after the victory of July ist, it became 
a serious problem whether it would be advisable to fall back, 
what would have been the state of affairs had the gallant army 
of Escario on that day been behind the San juan entrench- 
ments? In the cm], no doubt, our army would ha\e won, but 
at what a fearful cost ! In the engagements of July ist we lost 
one-eighth of the Eifth Army Corps in killed and wounded. 
With the Spanish regular forces nearly doubled by the arrival 
oi Escario, one may easily conjecture how vastly this mournfiil 
loss would have been increased. 

In view of the facts, the impartial historian must declare 
that the American army is under an obligation to the Cuban 
cohimn which resisted Gen. Escario's advance, too great to be 
expressed in words. ( )iir warmest thanks and our most sub- 
stantial appreciation are due to these men for this efficient 
co-operation, which proved so costly to themsehes as well as 
to the enemy whom they opposed. 



Chapter XI 



Santiago in War Time 



H 



IS few surviving comrades saw 

His smile when rang their proud hurrah 

And the red field was won ; 
Then saw in death his eyelids close 
Calmly, as to a night's repose, 

Like fiowers at set of sun. 

Come to the bridal chamber, Death, 

Come to the mother's, when she feels, 
For the first time, her first-born's breath ; 

Come when the blessed seals 
That close the pestilence are broke, 
And crowded cities wail its stroke ; 
And thou art terrible ; the tear. 
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier. 
And all we know, or dream, or fear 
( )f agony arc thine. 

But to the hero, when his sword 

Has won the battle for the free, 
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, 
And in its hollow tones are heard 
The thanks of millions yet to be. 

— Fri z-( Ikf.exe Halleck. 



Santiago in War Time 




1 11'^ acti\"c campaign ot th(* I'ikh .\rm\- Corps in Ciil)a 
lasted t\vt'nt)-si.\ cla\'s. IIk- ch-ath cr\' ot our fallen 
heroes on the "red field" of jiily ist and 2d was 
answered by the "proud hurrah "" of Inly f^d. which 
rang- around the American trenches when the news came of 
Sampson's victor\' o\er Cervera's fleet. That was the beeinnincf 
of the end. 1 wo weeks thereafter Toral surrendered to Shafter, 
and the war for Cuban liberty was o\er. ihe Americans 
obtained possession of Santiaoo on the 17th of [uly. 1S9S. 
The Stars and Stripes were raised above the Municipal I'alace 
at noon of that day. Before evening- the obstructing- mines 
at the harbor's mouth were removed, and the hrst 



Relieving 
Santiago 



supplies entered in the S/cr/i' of Texas, the relief 
ship of the Red Cross Society. Then followed Gov- 
ernment transports with commissary supplies. Two days after 
the surrender (July 19th, 1S9S) the I'. S. S. Resolute left Xew 
York laden with medical supjdies ot all sorts from th.e Govern- 
ment Medical Department and from several volunteer societies. 
My first trip to Cuba was made on this shi[), and we arrived oti 
Santiago July 25th. 

The brown bastions oi the Morro looked calml\- down 
upon us front the gra\- clift as we entered the harbor. Xot a 
soldier was on guard. The place was solitary. A tlag floated 

from the summit : a small tlag on a low staff", l)ut — it was the 

333 



334 /iDautial Graves 

Stars and Stripes ! As we passed into the mouth of the now 
famous ••botde/' the yellow crest of the Socapa battery showed 
its row of black guns on the left. To the right, so close that 
one might almost touch it, lay the Rciua Mercedes, keeled over 
and pierced with shot, the swell of the waves rising and falling 
over her sloping deck. Beyond this the Merriiuac lay level 
upon her keel, nothing showing but the top of her smoke stack 
and her two masts, the foremast splintered by a shell. In front 
of us, on a jutting point, was the battery of Punto Gorda, 
whose guns pointed straight out of the harbor's mouth and com- 
manded the strip of open sea visible between the Morro cliff 
and the hill Socapa. A vessel steaming by in the ofhng 
reminded one of the vigilant watchers of Sampson's fleet as 
they patrolled the harbor approaches until that eventful July 3d, 
when the Spanish x'\dmiral broke bounds and rushed to his 
doom. What excitement must have thrilled the hearts of those 
gallant Spanish seamen as they stood by their guns and saw 
their ships plow through these now placid waters toward yon- 
der patch of blue ocean ! And what answering fervor throbbed 
in the veins of our American tars as they saw the black banners 
of smoke trailing through the opening, and the cry rang along 
the decks : " To quarters ! The Spaniards are coming !" 

We had little time for thoughts of those battle days of 
early |uly. There was another enemy among the beautiful 
hills that environ Santiago which we had come to meet. The 
city lies to the right or east of the pouch-shaped harbor, the 
red dies of her rooftops rising tier on der to the middle slope 
on which stands the Cathedral with its triple towers, and still 
upward to the high ridge crowned with the long buildings of 
the Spanish General Hospital, the Reina Mercedes barracks 
and the Civil Hosi)ital. The harbor was dotted with transports 



Santiago m lUar liiuc "•"'•'> 

waiting their turn to unload at the (iua\-. ( )n the tablelantl to 
the left, nestled against the green hills that swell above them, 
were the tents of Gen. Ludlow's Brigade of Maj.-Gen. Lawton's 
1 )ivisi()n. which niark(-d the extreme right of our line of cir- 
cumvallation that stretched away cityward and southward until 
lost to view in the rolls and knobs of the mountains. In th(* 
camps of that conquering army were four thousand men sick 
with the calentura or Cuban fever, with typhoid, jjernicious 
m-ilaria, and various camp and climatic tliseases. And some- 
where there, just showing his yellow visage of doom, was that 
"pestilence that walketh in darkness " and " wasteth at noon- 
day." It was a threatening situation. But help was at hand ! 
The good ship Resolute had come loaded w ith hospital furniture 
hospital apparel, hospital foods and delicacies, hospital medi- 
cines and hospital helpers in the form of phvsicians and 
nurses. 

Gen. Shafter sat on a cane-seat settee at one end of his 
reception room in the municipal " palace." as we approached 
him. A row of three chairs on either side faced one another 

at right ano-les to the settee. This is a Spanish 
r* p n 
OT- r.' mode of receivino-, and is a fittino- and convenient 
Shafter , , . . 

one. One's first meeting with a notal)le person is 

always interesting and usually disappointing. Preconceived 
notions are quite certain to be wrong in some particulars. 
The author had expected to meet a man of enormous propor- 
tions ; but, although there was certainly a goodly girth about 
the middle, and the lower limbs were stout, the face was not 
that of an obese man. The cheeks were not "fat," not e\en 
full. They were rather thin, and somewhat hollow. It is a 
strong face that looks down upon or uf to ycni out of eyes that 
have an anxious and not unkind look. The face is long. 



336 /iDartial Graves 

crowned with a capacious brow, surmounted by a plentitul 
g-rowth of iron-gray hair, parted in the middle, not daintily, but 
in disorder, as though a hand had been thrust through it in a 
moment of meditation. 

The stories atloat as to Gen. Shafter's brusqueness, even 
rudeness of manner and profanity of speech were not verified 
by his reception of our party. Nothing could have been more 
courteous, even cordial, than his welcome. He greeted us 
heartil)', entered at once upon our business, gave more than an 
hour to the matter, and showed every attention and extended 
every aid at his command. No doubt the coming of our ship 
must have relieved him of an immense burden ot anxiety. 
With the National Relief representatives was Maj. T. O. 
Summers, the surgeon in charge of the vast stores sent on the 
Rcso/iifc by the Medical Department of the army. As compared 
with these our supplies and those of the National Red Cross 
Society, abundant as they were, did not seem formidable. 
However, when it came to distribution, their quality may be 
judged by the Major's remark : " Your things are the ones the 
surgeon's ask for first." lliat was natural, for the factor ot 
"home comforts" went into their selection. 

Maj. Ha\ard, the surgeon-in-chief of Gen. Shafter's stafi', 
soon joined our conference. His khaki uniform, soiled almost 
to blackness, showed the character of the campaign. He had 
not seen his trunk since the day the expedition landed. Most 
of the officers were in the same condition, and even changes 
of underclothing were for weeks impossible. The highest 
officers had to go without drawers and undershirts while their 
one suit was being washed. Meanwhile, their baggage was 
sailing to and fro in the holds of the trans[)orts. Dr. Havard 
is a man of (|uiet manner, low voice and deliberate speech, 



Santiago 111 IGar nine '■'■'' 

with a slight accent to iiKirk his l""rench descent. He bruiigiit 
in the sick report for the clay, and then placctd in the commander's 
hand a letter from Dr. La Garde, the faiihtiil and efficient 
surg-eon in charge of the hos})ital at Sil)()ne\-. which intliuh-d 
the special hospital for yellow fever cases. " W C want cots" — 
so the letter ran, 

" I ha\"e them !" exclaimed Maj. Summers, " i 500 of them." 

"We want hospital tents" — •• 1 have them, too, 600 of 
them ! " again ihe surgeon interriipt(,'d. 

" \\g want medicines of every sort ; our sui)ply is almost 
exhausted." 

"I have everything — plenty!" cried the Major. 

"We want hospital furniture and apparel, nightshirts, 
pajamas, delicacies, something for our convalescents ! " Xow 
came in our turn : " We have them here ! " was the answering 
chorus. 

"Moreover," the letter continued, "our surgeons are 
nearly worn out ; three are sick. We need fifteen doctors and 
at least fifty nurses." 

"What can you do in that line ?^ " asked Gen. Shafter, 
looking u[) from the notes in his hand, with a shade of anxiety 
on his countenance. E\ ideiilK' he was not prepared for a 
favorable answer. 

Dr. .Summers took a sheet Irom a bundle ot documents ; 
silently counted up a list of names and answered : " We ha\ e 
eleven competent physicians, all experiencetl in the treatment 
of yellow fever, and fifty-hve immunt; nurses, ot whom ten are 
women." 

Is it any wonder that, in the pause which ensued, one ot 
our party expressed the opinion that the answer had couk- to 
Dr. La (jarde's appeal, both in time and detail, as though 



38S miautial Graves 

directly sent by Uixine Providence. Gen. Shatter, with a startled 
expression in his eyes, j^azed for a moment on the speaker, 
silently noddetl his head, and with a muttered word of assent 
turned again to his papers. 

The Resolute was oiven the right of wa)' in landing- its 
cargo on the quay already piled high with commissary and quar- 
termaster stores. l)Ut before the unloading began the authori- 
ties decided to send the first relief to the hospital at Siboney, 
where the distress and need were greatest. An errant order, 
added to the lack of lighterage, compelled the transfer of mate- 
rials from the Resohilc to a waiting transport, and these, with 
surgeons and nurses, were sent to Siboney. The same diffi- 
culty presented in getting freight and people ashore that faced 
the Fifth Corps when it landed. But before the day closed a 
portion of the cargo was landed through the surf at Siboney, 
and the work of relieving our suftering soldiers had begun. 
The nt^xt da\' the new doctors and nurses were at work, and 
cdints of hope began to lighten up the dark situation. " Oh ! " 
said one of the patients, with a grateful look, "if you folks had 
only come sooner, lots of our boys might have been saved!" 
And why didn't we " come sooner? " 

The hospital supplies l)rought in the Resolute began to be 
lightered on Wednesday. July 27th. By Thursday and Friday 
the surgeons had got word of the rescue and were thronging 
the wharf with their re(piests and recjuisitions. The requests 
made to the National Relief Commission were at once granted 
without formalit)-. With wise humanity the surgeon in charge 
of Government stores dispensed with red tape, and the needed 
remedies and restoratives began slowly trickling campward. 
SlowK' it must be. 



Wc Ionised tor the wiiios of oenii to wafl llu-se healino- 

thinos to the hospitals within the hills. Hut the scantiness 

of transportation was one of the chief difficulties. The one 

road and its several trails, had!}- cut iij) and washetl l»y the 

incessant rains, were muddy and in spots almost impassable. 

Yet, ere long, mule teams, pack trains, ambulances and -un 

caissons were in motion, bearino- their blessed and blessing 

relief to oiu- sick heroes. I have often had occasion to eulogize 

the army mule. lUit 1 never blessed his sturdy back and 

muscular legs more heartily than when 1 saw him climbing the 

steeps of Santiago's hills, |)ackingand jjulling the hospital stores 

of the Government and the goods of the Relief Commission. 

Ere I turned my face in the late afternoon from the tent 

of Gen. Wallace Randolph, of the artillery, 1 saw the fair white 

hospital tents arise within his cantonment, and 1 )r. Keiffer. with 

his caisson train, bringing up cots and bo.xes. 1 had met him in 

the morning on the dock, and saw the naked skin of his bodv 

showing through a rent in his blouse lie had taken off his 

one shirt to have it washed, but hc-aring that medical su])i)li(s 

had arrived, he "stood not upon the order of his going," but 

mounted a mule and hurried off to Santiago, to get something 

for his sick men. As I rode away, jjleasant visions arose of 

transfornied hos[)itals and wan faces brightened with hojje of 

restored health through the incoming helj). 

The special purpose of my first visit to Santiago was to 
inspect the camp hospitals and see the real condition and wants 
of the sick. One hesitates to give the facts. Intleed, it is 
impossible to tell all the truth : for none but the sufferers them- 
selves can know the trials of sickness under such conditions. 
The hospital tents were few, and makesiiifts of divers sorts had 
been tried to piece out the precious space. I'nhappily, they 



340 miavtial Graves 

could not succeed, and the sick were crowded within inadequate 
quarters. In all that army of occupation I had seen, as late as 
lul)- 30th. onl\' one sick soldier on a cot! Most of the men 
lav upon the ground with their rubber clothes or poncho and 
blankets, and sometimes only the latter, beneath them. The 
dail\- torrential rains had saturated the earth, which was con- 
tinuously damp. The torrid sun had set it steaming, but had 
not dried it. 

The prevalent disease was the climatic malarial fever, with 
some cases of camp dysentery and typhoid. On the pre- 
cedino- day the health report, as read to us by Gen. Shalter 
from his official notes, was as follows : Sick soldiers, 4122 ; total 
fever cases, 3195 ; new cases, 822 ; returned to duly, 542 ; net 
increase, 290. If we estimate the expeditionary army ol San- 
tiago at 18,000 we see that more than one-fifth were carried on 
the sick report, and that sickness was rapidly increasing. It is 
a serious state of affairs when 822 new cases of sickness are 
reported in one day. Moreover, of those returned to duty 
many were unfit to go. 'But there was no place for them. 
They ought to have remained for convalescence, to be nourished 
into vigor. But their room on the ground was needed by 
comrades worse ofi than themselves, and they must "move on." 
Many of them would soon be sent back to hospital, and of not 
a few it is to be feared their last estate was worse than their 
first. 

What \ver(" the tacilities lor treating tht;se sick heroes? 
The ordinary conveniences of field hospitals did not exist any- 
where around Santiago up to the close of July. The most 
important medicines were nearly exhausted. The commonest 
remedies were lacking. The little corner that represented the 
dispensary was a caricature. The heroic surgeons and their 



Santiaiio in lUar Lime 341 

helpers themselves sick, halt sick or sickcniiiLJ. were eno-a«'-etI 
in the forlorn work of curinL; men wlllioul inctlicinc and restor- 
ing strength without nourishment. 

Were these men also without food? No; they had salt 
pork, hard tack, beans and black coffee. What "luxuries" 
these must have been to fever patients with ih<ir fastidious 
ai)petites and stomachs already clogged widi coarse armv 
rations, may be imagined. The delicacies that ill ])eoj)le crave 
and need were unattainable- lor tlic great majorit\- of th<-sc 
sufferers, and for few or none could adc(|iiatc <lict be had. 

Moreover, these inxalid soldiers, and in most cases lh<- 
officers fared no better, had no change of ajjparel. Thex' la\' 
as they came, in their heavy woolen trousers, shirts and 
drawers, stained b\' weeks ot campaigning on ih(.t mudd\- roads 
and wet trenches, and soiled b\ the necessities of their ail- 
ments. Their mates, with rude kindness, sought to clean them 
up a bit, but the pitiful inadecjuacy of their well-meant efforts 
was shown b\' the swarms ot llies that settled ht^re and there 
upon faces and hands and stained garments. 

The situation in Santiago immediateK' alter the surrender, 
and, indeed, for some time subsecpient thereto, might ha\e 
appalled the stoutest heart. The bitth Army Corps was in a 

deplorable condition [)h\sicall\', and over the camps 
Santiago's , , , , ' ' i i ^ . . i i 

^. there huno" the rarely e.\pressed but potent dread 

Distress 

of an impending calamity through the i)resenc(,' of 

yellow fever. Nothing but the prospect of a battle couKl ha\ c 
revived even for a little while the hea\ y s|)irits and the enfee- 
bled frames of the .\nierican soldic-rs. The strain and ter\(»r 
and drain of a decade had been compressed within the si.x w eeks' 
campaign. " Their work done, why sh uiUl the\- lie there under 
a torrid sun and torrential rains, burning by day and shivering 



342 nuartial Grares 

l)y night, only to oive fuel to the pest and food to the buzzards 
and land crabs?" So the men queried within themselves. 

Then came the " round robin " of the chief commanders, and 
soon the order from army headcjuarters for the men to come 
home. It is a mistake to suppose that the round robin origi- 
nated and compelled that order, which is the popular belief. It 
may have hastened it ; but when I rode through the camps of 
the I'"ifth Army Corps in the last week of Jul)-, time and again 
I stopi)ed in the midst of the groups of soldiers to cheer them 
with the assurance that the Government intended to send them 
home as soon as possible. This word of hope (for it certainly 
was one). I was permitted to speak on the authority of state- 
ments made to me by the President and the Secretary of War. 
while in Washington shortly before my departure for Santiago 
on July 19th, two days after the surrender. I have heard some 
of the men speak of the exhilarating influence which my state- 
ment at that time exerted among them. The good news gave 
them heart to bear their privations inspired by the hope ot an 
early return home. 

When I entered Santiago the second time, on the 15th ol 
August, the work of deporting the army had begun. The troop 
shij)s were dail)- loading and de[)arting. and the harbor rang 
with the cheers of the soldiers on shipboard and of those who 
crowded the (juay awaiting their turn to go. The only sad 
faces and desponding spirits were those of soldiers in the hos- 
pitals and in the convalescent camps who were compelled by 
their disability to see the ships go without them. It was hard 
to give these men consolation, although they knew that as soon 
as they were ready for the voyage the good word would be 
spoken that should send them toward "God's own Country." 



Sautlaoo in XGar Zunc :U3 

The energies ot Majors len. Shaltcr, the C"<»iiiiiian(l<r-iiv 
Chiet, were bent almost exclusively upon the work ol transport- 
ing" the army, lie luul little time and little; vigor, for he was 

suffering with fe\er, forci\il administration. ( )nly 

Gen. ^A*^ood's r ^ ^ r r .^ • -^ .^i i r. r 

nve days beiore mv lU'st \ isit tlie responsil)ihi\- ot 
Advent i i i i i ' i i i 

such thity had been placed upon one whose name is 

now a household wortl, ( ien. Leonard Wood, the Colonel of 
the First \"olunteer Cavalr\', known as the Rough Riders. In 
three weeks his inlluence as municij)al governor was already 
apparent, although only one who could compare the c(jndition 
of things with that immediately following the surrender could 
appreciate the difference. The reign of filth was perhaps never 
more thoroughly established in a civili/ed town than in .Santiago 
during that period. The accumulated ottal of a besieged town, 
of an armed camj), of a city abandoned 1)\- its inhabitants under 
the terror of impending bombardment, and reoccupied by them 
after a season of exile which had sowed among them th*; seeds 
of malarial, typhoid and yc^llow fevers, tliarrhd-a, d\-senler\- and 
divers diseases resulting from starvation and exi)osure : the 
accumulated ills of a population of which hilly one-third was 
sick, and but a scant proportion had adecpiate tood. medicine 
and medical care ; these presented some ot the features of the 
sphere of civil inlluence over which Cm. Wood was calh'd to 
preside. 

There was no system of sewers, antl surkice drainage was 
relied upon to carry off the slops and eHete matter unblush- 
ingly cast into the highwa\s. The daily rains at least did the 
kindly service of washing the upper sections ol the sharj)ly 
sloping streets ; but the heterogeneous mass ot tilth was trans- 
ferred to the level strip along the i^ay. and then into the har- 
bor at the foot of the town. The cobble-stone pavements, with 



o44 /IDartial (Braves 

their deep and numerous crevices, took toll of the passing sew- 
age swept downward by the floods, and held it in a thousand 
chinks and miniature ravines and vales until the waters went 
down and the fiery sun came out. Then the whole mass fer- 
mented and festered and sent up its foul odors charged with 
malarial poison. 

The scenes in the Civil Hospital whose reorganization was 
committed to me by Gen. Wood, beggared description. Three 
persons occupied the space allotted to one. Adequate nursing 
and medical treatment were wanting. The gleanings of the 
dead house were daily thrust uncoffined into the dead cart, and 
dri\en to a common se[)ulchre or to a funeral pyre. In the 
houses of citizens were repeated the distressing scenes of the 
hospital. One-third or more of the people were sick, many ol 
them seriously ill, and of the remainder few were in vigorous 
health. Half-naked children, showing the marks of disease and 
want, j)layed in the fetid streams that wandered down the 
streets. The broad quay was filled with a miscellaneous 
crowd, who cooked and ate their scant meals in the open high- 
way as though it were a gypsy camp. Funerals passed at 
every hour. Pitiful sights ! Two bearers of a coffin with one 
or two pairs of mourners following ; or. token of a little better 
estate, four bearers and several j)airs of mourners. Rarely, a 
carriage would carry a corpse, and at rarest intervals, a hearse. 
Often one man would be seen wending his mournful way 
through the street carrying a litth- white coffin in his arms, the 
respectful salute of those whom he met being the sign tiiat a 
funeral was passing by. 

Sickness, starvation, death, pestilence were in the air, and 
overhung the town like a pall. Men wondered and dreaded — 
What next? The dying cared for the dead, and the living 



Santiaoo in XGai* "Cnnc 345- 

einicd the ch'in^-, and hlack doom faced all llcsh. IWisiiicss was 
prostrated. The well-to-do were dependent upon charity tor 
daily bread. The uncertainty of the future, under the adminis- 
tration of strangers with a foreign bearing' and a foreign touL^aie. 
j)aralyzed enterprise. The irritation cxistlnL:" Ix-twecn the 
American troops and the Cuban patriots, which ihrcahMicd at 
any time an outl)reak. deepened the shadow of uncertainly 
caused by the bitterness and undisouisetl hate prevailin«^ 
between Spanish citizens and sympathizers and Cuban patriots. 

Outside the city limits l)ut close by, were the camj)s of the 
Fifth Army Corps, and of their Spanish prisoners, both alike 
ravaoed by varioifs diseases. One-fourth of the American 
soldiers were on the sick report : another fourth had just hcen 
discharged therefrom, and a gocnl moiety of the remainder was 
almost ready for the hospital or the surgeon's hands. The 
Spanish solchers were in even worse estate. The unhappy cil\". 
the seat Avithin herself of so many woes, was thus enyironed 
round about with a cc^rtlon of disease and death. It was truly 
a deplorable estate — almost h()j)eless. 

At this juncture Gen. Wood appeared upon the scene and 
took up the task of reconstructing municipal goyernment in 
Santiago. He is a man above the middk; height : not stout nor 
thin, but of thai lilhe and well knil fi'ame so often associ- 
ated with great activit)' and endurance. I lis face is clean- 
shaven except a slight mustache. His light brown hair is 
somewhat sparse and coarse, not silky, at least. I lis eyes are 
blue-gray, not prominent, set rather closely against a semi- 
aquiline nose. 1 lis countenance has the expression ot a man 
of studious habits, and in repose it has a dreamy, ey(Mi pensive 
cast, such as men popularly attribute to poets. On the whole, 
one might at first glance take him to be a college professor, or 



340 /IDavtial Graves 

even a clergyman of the type that discards clerical style. One 
would hardly pick out such a face as that of the fearless, 
dashing Colonel of the Rough Riders. His manners in con- 
versation are quiet. He is not talkative ; listens carefully with 
impassive features, but in earnest conversation the face lightens 
up and he can talk lluently and well. He is not a man of 
explosive manner, nor demonstrative at all, but rather deliber- 
ate in action ; a man to trust to make up his mind caretully, 
but to change it under sufficient evidence ; a cool, quiet, 
thoughtful man of a judicial temperament. 

His unconventional manners were in strange contrast with 
the ceremonious style of Spanish administrators ; and it shocked 
the Cuban citizens who came to the Palace as deputies on 
public business, clad in full morning dress and silk hats, to be 
received Ijy the Governor, a General of the great American 
Republic, in a campaign hat pinched up to a Montana peak, a 
gray ilannel shirt and khaki trousers, and gaiters somewhat the 
worse for wear. Perhaps he was a little too unmindtul at first 
of the value which Cubans, through the force of tradition and 
established custom, placed upon the conventional pomp and 
ceremony that hedges about a ruler. But they soon learned that 
a work-a-day dress meant a work-a-day man, and that mere cere- 
mony would not clean Santiago's streets, heal Santiago's diseases 
and restore prosperity to Santiago's impoverished people. 

Gen. Wood came to the gubernatorial seat with the preju- 
dice against the Cuban people, and especially the Cuban sol- 
diers, that so many officers of the Infth Army Corps had 
imbibed during the brief campaign. But he showed his justice 
and wisdom by adopting a policy not only of considerate kind- 
ness, but of that respectful treatment due an independent 
people, the legal peers of American citizens, who were to be 



Santiago m lUar Zimc -i: 

met and dealt witli Iroin the basis of liberty, (Miualiu- and fra- 
ternity. He L^raspixl the situation at once, antl saw that the 
men put in authority in Cuba and in our new possessions, who 
would best meet the expectations of the Government and 
people of the United States, are those who assure a ri^^hteous, 
prosperous and peaceful administration, with the least friction 
to the colonies and the greatest economy of life antl money to 
the United States. 'I his just, benevolent, sagacious and states- 
m.inlike })olicy has been honored both in Cuba and .\merica, 
and what is better, has succeeded in layiuL;" the toundations ol 
i^ood LTOvernment in the Eastern Province of Cuba. 

At first Gen. Wood was greatly hamj)ered by the lack of 
sufficient means, and adequate authority to carry out his plans 
for civil and mih'tary reform. Major-Gen. Lawton was in chief 
command, and (ien. Wood was only a brigadier assigned to the 
duty of municipal government, and dependent ujjon his chief 
for support therein. lUit (len. Lawton was by no means tree 
to act according to his own judgment and imlinalions. What 
were the restrictions placed upon him at tliat ])art.icular juncture 
the writer cannot say ; but he knows that in some way thi.- 
power to appropriate funds in hand and to secure governmental 
funds for immediate and pressing use was greatly abridged. It 
is hard to make bricks without straw, ami thai was about the 
duty apparently assigned to Gen. Lawton and Gen. Wootl at 
that period of municipal administration, the genesis ot our i)r()- 
tectorate in free Cuba. 

That the (,litVicult\' did not arise from any unwillingness of 
the head of the War I )epanment to relieve the situation the 
following incident will show. When about t(j leave Santiago 
on the Scguraiua I stopped at the >h nicipal Palace to report to 
Gen. Lawton and to say good-by to him and Gen. Wood. IJoth 



348 fmavtial Graves 

officers were most cordial in expressing their appreciation of 
my services, and the latter, taking me aside to the corner of 
the reception room which then constituted his private office, laid 
clrarly before me the situation, the awful and pressing need of 
immediate relief; his embarrassment, indeed his inability to 
meet the demands of the situation, and asked me to see the 
Secretary of War and to lay the facts before him in unvarnished 
terms. This I agreed to do. As soon as I could safely leave 
my room, I went to \\\ashington and made my promise good. 

Secretary Alger listened not only with interest, but with 
sympathy. \\'hen I had finished he touched a button on the corner 
of his desk. The Adjutant-General of the Army appeared. 
"Telegraph to Gen. Lawton," said the Secretary, " that I have 
heard Dr. McCook's report of the Cuban sick and poor, 
especially in the Ci\il Hosjiital, and that he is directed to draw 
ui)on the funds for all that is required to relieve their wants. 
Will that suffice, Doctor?" he continued. Certainly, nothing- 
could have been more satisfactor)' ; and I doubt not the Secre- 
tary's directions was immediately obeyed, and the good news 
flashed at once over the sea cable to relieve the burdened 
hearts of Generals Lawton and Wood, and to bring blessings 
to the suffering unfortunates in .Santiago. 

Gen. Lawton, the heroic commander of the Second Divis- 
ion that captured Caney, succeeded Gen. Shafter. After a brief 
service as Military Chief, in which he won the respect and con- 
fidence of the peoi)le, he was relieved to enter 
ajor- en. ^ ^^ ]^j^ valiant and successful career as a leatler 
Lawton ' . ' , i -i i-i- • ii • 

ot the forces agamst the hostile iMJipmos. He is 

a man of soldiery bearing ; tall and thin but not gaunt, with 
that lithe and muscular physique which betokens great vigor 
and endurance. Mis face- is long, swarthy by exposure rather 



Saiitiaoo in lUar Zunc :^40 

than nature, smooth-sliavcn except a heavy mustache al)o\c lips 
whose firm outhnes, together with a full chin and strt)nL;ly set 
jaws, indicate couray^e and determinaiiou. The eyes arir not 
large, are cpiiet, and light up most plcasaiuK'. Ihr. nose is 
romanesque, the forehead not high, ami covered with a thick 
crop of closely-cut brownish hair just tinged with streaks of 
gra)'. The voice is mellow, not rough, Init clear, and e\ en 
musical at times. The whole countenance is a pleasant one to 
look upon, good-looking rather than handsome. I lis m.imiers 
are cordial to friends and comrades ; (piietand respectful to all ; 
there is nothing loud nor domineering nor self-conscious in his 
demeanor. One soon learns to regard Gen. Lawton as a t\ i)ical 
soldier and officer, a thorough, honorahle. l)raveand manl\- man. 

The advent ot Cien. W ood was the signal lor commenc- 
ing radical changes in the sanitary, social and governmental 
condition of Santiago. In the face of man\' obstacles the work 
has been carried forward tintil a decided change for the better has 
been wrought. An officer of the Fifth I'nited States Infantry 
(regulars) who joined his regiment at Santiago in ( )ctober. 
1898, has recently, in answer to my questions, stated some of 
the improvements which have been estal^lished or started ilur- 
ing his stay. The harbor is being deepened antl cleansed, for 
wliich purpose a regular dredging machine has been brouL;ht 
from the United States. Work was begun close to the shore 
in order so to deepen the channel as to jxrmil vessels to 
approach the pier, now im[)ossil)le lor large- ships. 'I lie nuid 
removed from the harbor bed is taken in scows to the sea. 

The stre(,'ts are being repaired. Marina Street Irom the 
Alanieda to the Palace has already been macadamized. .San 
Thomas, San Felix, Enhremadas, San Geronimo and other |)rin- 
cipal streets have been much imj)roved and some ot them also 



o.io /IDartial Gravc5 

macadamized. Other streets have been repaired by smoothino- 
oH the inequalities and lillin-- up the holes with broken stone. 
The Alameda has been i)iit in rc-pair. Its avenue of i)alms has 
been cared for, benches and ])aviru)ns have been painted and 
■ repaired ; the camps of American soldiers have been removed, 
and the broad wav is now clear for driving- and promenading. 
The miscellaneous crowds of half-naked, half-starved and chrty 
l)eoi)le who formed the gypsy-camp ui)on the qua\- south ot 
Marina Street, have been dispersed, and that part of the harljor 
axcniie has been cleaned up. 

'I'he work of providing underground drainage has begun, 
and pipes for transmission of water and sewage are being laid 
down under direction of Lieut. Hamilton, of the Fifdi Inlantry, 
who is the engineer in charge. The labor on these works is done 
by Culxins who work regularh" and willingl)-. An admirable 
system of street cleaning has been established. The tlump- 
ing of slops upon public highways is prohibited and is severely 
punished. Households have suital)le vessels in which all waste 
material mav be placed, whose contents are daily collected and 
taken to a dump outside the city beyond the Civil Hospital, 
where the)- are burned. The street cleaning brigade is under 
the efficient charge of Maj. Barbour, and his workers are clad 
in a white uniform such as Col. Waring enforced when directing 
similar service in New York. Special iron wagons are used, so 
arranged that they can be easily dumped, and these regularly 
mak(; the rounds of the streets. 1-our Cubans are attached to 
every wagon to collect the garbage. I'nder this arrangement 
the principal streets are now quite clean, especially around the 
plaza and in the business centres. In fact, Santiago in this 
respect compares favorably with many American cities. 

The Spanisli Military Hospital has been converted into a 



Sautiaoo in IGau ciinc ••■'•i 

general hospital tm- I'liiuHl Stales ti'oops. ami is in spic-iKliil 
condition, with plcnt)- of surgeons to look alter the sick. Both 
doctors and patients are in ^ood (luartcn-s and well cared tor in 
all res])ects. The Ci\il Hospital or Miinieipal 1 losi)ital ic)r the 
citizens of Santiago is in excc-llent condition. It is in change 
ot an Anu;rican surL;c"'>n, who is aided 1)\ Cul)an debtors. 1 he 
pri\ate hospital which had Ix-en estahlished by the merchants 
of Santiago before the war, and which had been fitted up durinL;- 
Gen. Lawton's achninistration as a hospital tor United States 
officers and others, is under the charge of Sur-^eon Cliurch. 
formerl)- of the Rough Riders. It is in e.xcellent condition, and 
as the climate is unwholesome for the officers ot our army as 
well as the men. is unhapplK- in constant use. 

Outside the city there have been also many changes for the 
better. The road from Santiago to Caney has been gone over 
pretty thoroughly. The deep ruts and holes matle by the 
hea\y trans|)ortation wagons of the Fifth Army Corps ha\-e 
been filled up, and the roatl may now be regarded as a tirst-class 
one according to the Cuban standanl. at least during th«- dry 
season. Repairs have also been made upon the road trom San 
[nan 1 lill through El Po/o to Sibone)-, which is so tamiliar to 
officers and men of the b'ifth Army Cori)s as forming the only 
line of transportation for commissary and ordnance; supplies 
during the eventful days at the close of lune and beginning 
of July. It is now a fairly good tlirt road, making even a |)as 
sable path lor a bic\cle during the so-ealled winter months. 

Ihislness is much rexived. and the people ot the cit\- apjjear 
to be in good spirits as to the tuturc-. The tields and i)lanta- 
tions in the near vicinity of Santiago are being gradually put 
under cultivation. The whole section had l^een aband(-)ned l)y 
the owners, and for se\eral \cars had been gi\en oxer to the 



o52 /IDautial Graves 

uiiregLilatetl orowth of wlKl troijical [)lants. The su^-ar 
plantations still further beyontl the hekls adjacent to the city, 
are being- worked by the owners, although under some disad- 
vantages, on account of the occasional presence ot bandits who 
•exact blackmail. This is j)aid at present as security against the 
destruction of propc;rt\-. and this inicpiitous system will probably 
be continued until law and order are thoroughK' established 
under Gen. Wood's administration. 

The road to Siboney runs past the Spanish (ieneral Hos- 
pital, a s(;ries of extensive connected buildings on the heights. 
Its managemcMit under the Spanish surgeons appears to have 
been highly commendable. From a half dozen points floated 
the Red Cross banner of the Medical Department. Just beyond 
the gates of the town, in the valley and on the lower slopes fac- 
ing San juan, the Spanish captives were encamped. Soon after 
breakfast, the hour of sick-call, a melancholy procession of sick 
soldiers would be seen slowly moving toward the hospital. The 
uniforni of these prisoners was a grayish blue cotton blouse and 

trousers, and a white panama hat which frequently 
Spanish , i i r i c • i i 

^ bore a rosette or cockade ot the Spanisli colors. 

Prisoners , ^ ... 

In the Spanish army the grade ot non-conimissioned 

officers anti various arms of service is indicated by movable 
badges. Rank is indicated among commissioned of^cers by 
stars, differing in size, in metal antl in number, and by slip-on 
cuffs. These marks of rank are all removal)le, to permit laun- 
dry work. Despite the r(;putation of Spanish soldiers tor 
uncleanliness, most of the prisoners whom I saw, and even the 
forlorn sick detail, looked clean, a fact largely due to their wash- 
clothes uniforms. 

They were all without underclothes, a circumstance hardly 
conducive to health in the Cuban climatt;. The sun is intensely 



Santiago in IGau Zimc '■>'>•'> 

hot from q a. m. to 5 \). ni., alllioii^h oik; can kct-p conirorlal)lc 
in the shade even chirin^- that inl«T\al. At niL^hl, (hiring;' the 
three months of which I had experience, |ul\', August and 
September, the temperature lapidly fell, under the combined 
inthiences of the adjacent nmuntains and sea. 1 here wci-c noi 
a half dozen niL^hts in whicli 1 did not ha\-e to use a blanket 
before daybreak. In the ()[)en camps men without adetpiate 
covers and wilhoul underclothes often sufie-red from cold. 
I\b)reo\-er, when cotton unitorms are drenched b\- dail\' rains 
and kept damp by the w(!t ground and h(,'a\y dews, the\- become 
clammy antl induce chills. I'Ik! wool shirts and trousers of the 
American soldiers were certainK' hot and cumbrous duriiiL^' the 
heat of the day ; l)ut there was a compensation in iheir power 
to j)rotect against rains and eN'enin^ dews and ( hills, and it is 
not certain but that on the whole our men. under lh«ir peculiar 
conditions, were better served 1)\' them dian lhe\" would have 
been by cotton suits. 

Some ot the sick .Spaniards were helped b\- their mates. 
Some staggered or dragged themsehes wearil\- along without 
aid. Some were borne on litters on the shoulders of comrades. 
Among them, now and then, would be a face as ghastly and 
still as death, perhai)s a d\ing man. \o doubt man\" ot the 
Spanish soldiers were (juite young (as has been repDrtedi. but 
those seen by me were not boys, but young men, apparently 
between twenty-three and thirt\-. Hiere were no sullen looks 
cast at the passing officer. .Some saluted. All looketl uj) 
respecttuliN'. d heir countenances were sad and depressed as 
though longing tor a glimpst- ot the home coasts ot ,Si)ain. It 
would be a glad day indeed when these downdiearted men set 
their faces toward Europe. I rarely si:\v a bright, or sprightly, 
not to say a laughing face among the prisoners. There was 



354 miaitial Graves 

that in their countenance and carnage that bespoke a sense of 
weariness and oj^pression under an intolerable burden that 
mo\ed one to pity : but they bore themselves with a ([uiet dig-- 
nit\" that won respect. 

It was i>leasant to note the kindh' sj)irit that existed 
between the American troops and their captives. The fraterni- 
zation began at once, and would have grown warmer continually 
could the [H'isoners have come into closer contact with our men. 
The animosit}' of war on the part of the Americans ceased with 
the surrender, and the Spaniards soon learned that their foes 
are generous to a vanquished enemy. It was a rare revelation 
ol character when they found themselves cared for more ten- 
derly and led more abundantly than in their own lines. 

There is no doubt that many of the Spaniards at first 
believed that the Americans would shoot all captives. A touch- 
ing incident showing this feeling, which occurred at Caney, was 
related to me by a staff" officer. After the capture of tlie stone 
fort that crowns the hill El \"iso, a burial i^art)' under Capt. 
Allen began to inter the Spanish dead. This was done by 
laying them in their own trenches, as was also done at San 
Juan. Xearb)- the crest la)- a lad of about seventeen years 
shot through the hips. As the dead bodies of his comrades 
were borne behind him toward the trenches, he would turn his 
head and follow the sad work with a horror-stricken countenance. 
The American officer at last observed his face, and righth- dis- 
cerning his feelings, called an interpreter and assured the 
youthful soldier that no harm would l)e done him. 

"Shall I not be Inu'ied alive, along with my comrades?" 
was the an.xious query. 

" Xo, no ! You shall be cared for, j)resentl\', and ^■our 
wounds dressctd and tended as if \()u were an American." 



Santiago in XGav (wimc 3o5 

The )'outh's face was inslanlK- iraiistornKxl. Mis horror 
was changed to happiness, liis tear to Iriciidsliip. 1 |c reached 
out his hand to Capt. Allen and poured forth profuse thanks, 
and until he was taken to the hospital showed his ingratitude by 
shaking- hands with e\ery American who came near. Poor lad ! 
And he, too. is a mother's son, and some anxious-hearted dame 
awaited hiscomini^- in distant Spain. Ma\' her loveand lon;j;ing" 
have no disappointment I 

I was told several incidents illustrating;" the same error, 
which no doubt had been proj^aeated, or at least encouraL^f'ed, 
1)V .Spanish army othcers, in order to nc-rve their iL^iiorant peasant 
soldiers to die tightini^" rather than surrender. Major-Cien. 
Wheeler alludes to this pre\alent misbelief as it came under 
his observation. He sa\ s that it was somewhat amusinj;-. and 
yet pilitnl, to witness the abject trepidation ot the prisoners 
captured b\' the Americans. They were marched to (ien. 
.Shafter's heachpiarters, promptly disarmed, and anxthiuL;" with 
which they could inlhct injury was taken from them. They 
gazed about them with staring ey(.-s, watching closely every 
movement ot their guards, and whene\er a body of tin- 
latter entered and were drawn up in lint;, the .Spaniards confi- 
dently thought their end had come, and that they were to be 
shot down in a bod\ . At such times they would alternately 
shriek tor mercy, and endeaxor to pacity their captors by shout- 
ing " \ iva los Americanos !'' Iheir surprise and delight were 
intense, and their expressions and gesticulations jubilant when 
they were made to lie down on the grass, were spoken to kindly 
by the American interpreters, and were given a more substan- 
tial meal than they had probal)l\' Irul since leaving their 
native land.'-' 



* Wheeler — '' The Santiago Cam]"aiL;ii, '' i>p. 4S. 



'>5(3 /iDartial Graves 

The repatriation of the Spanish prisoners, according- to 
the provisions of the capitulation, was one of the most striking 
and in some respects one of the saddest events I have ever 

witnessed. To be sure there was underneath all 
Repatriation , ,. . , , , 

r n • the clistressmo- attendant scenes the undertone 

oi Prisoners . . , 

ot hope in view of home-going. lUit there was 

so much visible that was unspeakably pitiful that one could 
scarcely find it in his heart to be glad for the repatriated 
prisoners. In giving here my own impressions of the event I 
use with little change the notes written at the time, which are 
sketches from nature, and not mere recorded recollections. 

Wearied with the day's work and anxiety in the Civil 
Hospital, I had fallen asleep in my room, then on the Calle 
-Marina. The deep rumble of a heavy wagon over the cobble- 
stone pavement and the loud shouts of drivers awoke me. I 
arose, and leaninor over the wooden casement Q^azed through the 
wide iron guards of the great bowed window upon a strange 
scene. There were no obtruding panes of glass to break the 
vision. It was dark ; nothing but starlight in the street, except 
the glancing beams of lanterns swung on the arms of horsemen 
who cantered up and down directing the movements of a long 
w^agon train. What could this be? 

7 he \ans were the ambulances and baggage wagons of the 
Spanish army, and they were filled with Spanish soldiers. One 
knew them by the white leghorn hats and the blue gray cotton 
uniforms that showed almost white in the dim street. They 
sat or rather leaned up against one another in double rows, 
omnibus fashion, and ihr. narrow space between was filled with 
] (rostrate forms. 

" Whoa !" 'I'he \an beneath the window suddcMily stopped. 
1 he sharp jerk of the reins pulled the fore mules almost against 



Santuiiio m lUav Zimc '"{''T 

the house wall. One couKl reel the crroan that rolled aloiii-- the 
train as wai^on load after \vaL;(>n load of jarred and jolted men 
bumped up ai_;ainst one; another ( )ne could feel, but not hear 
It, Only the loud " W'hoas !" of the teamsters disturbed the 
night's stillness, ior these patient sufferers were mute. I hf\' 
were so leeble, so overwhelmed b\- the horrors of the prisoners' 
camp among the hills from which they were escaping, that they 
were dumb even in their pains. Perhaps, also, the thought 
of home-going kept them (piiet. 

'ihe clock struck and kejjt on striking. It was only eleven ! 
I had thought it morning, and this the fu^st train of those sad- 
faced, silent men. who had b(,'en treading the streets tor two 
clays on their way to the dock and to the .Spanish ships in the 
offing. It must be; the last of yesterday's cargo belated in tJK-ir 
journey ; journey, mark )'ou, not march, for these soldiers can- 
not march, although it is onU' two miles to their mountain camj). 
What will they do when they reach the dock ? W here will they 
sleep i^ Wdiat will they eat? (juien sabc; ?* — who knows.-' 
Aye. and who cares ? This is war I 

d he lanterns of the horsemen twinkled \.\[) and tlown the 
street, and the train again mo\ed. Ah I here come the littt-r 
men ! You can discern only the outline ot a form on the can- 
vas stretcher: but \'ou know the stor\-. \'es you haxc been in 
war before this. Moxc on, men' b'aster I Um't lei the 
following team trample you I 

The long train passed. The ruml)le ot wheels grew 
fainter, died awaw I he deep hush ol night again tell. .\ dog 
across the wa\' — wretched houiul I — litted up its xoice in one ot 
those prolonged howls, a survival ot its tar-away wollish ances- 
tors, whose weird dolet'ulness has ma le it with men of every 
race an omen of coming disaster. Will the brute never stoj) ? 



oo8 /iDartial Graves 

Hark! Up there, beyond the phiza and the nuinicipal palace 
where the Httle American Hag iloats above the carved arms of 
Spain, \'()u hear diml)- the ruml^le of a wag-on. That is the 
road toward Siboney and the prisoners' cami). It is another train 
of sick Spanish soldiers on the way home. Home to Spain — 
did \oii say? They should be housed in a hospital! The clock 
struck again. It was midnight. Heaven help the wretched 
men down there on the damp landing waiting for the morning ! 

At last day has come, and at long last — near noon — the 
order comes to the crowds of jaded, faded, fainting men sitting 
and King on every available spot, to get ready to go on board 
shi[) — homeward bound ! Even such a hope cannot put anima- 
tion into their movements. They rise slowdy and tall languidly 
into line. Stand on the dock with me where the fiery rays of 
a troi)ical sun beat hottest. A vessel is at the quay to transfer 
the prisoners to the big Spanish ships that cannot make landing 
here. On either side of the gangway, close against the vessel, 
are two Spanish officers whose sleek and wdiolesome looks are 
a striking foil to the wan face of the sergeant w'ho is calling a 
compan\' roll. [ust opposite him another officer has a type- 
written tlujolicate on which he checks oft" names as the sergeant 
called them. 

" juan Delgado." " Presente !" 

A thin-cheeked, sallow man started forward and stej^ped 
ui)on the gangway. His blanket roll was slung i3ver his bony 
shoulder, a bit of light stutT that will be slight i)rotection against 
sea winds and sea chills. I>ut he was better otT than many ot 
his comrades, who had no covering but their cotton uniforms, a 
suitable garb in torrid Cuba, it may be, but as effective as 
pajamas against old ocean. juan Delgado lecbly litted his arm 
to salute as he passed the sergeant and disapi)eared over the 



Santiiiiio 111 ICUu* Lime •;••!' 

gangway in the mass ot wan hnnianily on the Tarpon's cU.-cks. 
The roll call proceetled. i he lin(? of spectral figurt-s slowly 
crept shipward. Name iollowcd name, and the answering 
" presente — presente !" until the boat seemed full. \\\ the 
line of coming soldiers appearixl intcrminahlc. 

"What inhumanity to pack these nun in this wa\- ' The 
ship will be worse than the black hole of Calcutta'" I could 
not forbear this audible outbreak of indignation. 

A deep voice behintl me answered : " It's onl\- for a little 
while, sir. We're just taking tliem to their ship, which draws 
too much water to come to the dock. It's a tine ship, Ix-tter 
than any of these American transports. " 

I turned. It was one of the officers of the Tarpon who IkuI 
spoken, a spectator, like myself ot this touching scene. " lUit the 
Spanish transport will be overcrowded. I tlare say?" 1 (pieried. 

" Yes, no doul)t. They'll ])ut 2000 men where we woukl 
put 1400. And it'll be hard lines on 'em. Look at 'em, sir! 
There's not a sound lookin' man among 'em : not a i)atch o' 
color nor a bit o' tl(;sh. Skin an' bones, sir I Hut they're 
athletes alongside the lirst lot we carrietl. it was tlu- sick 
ones, an' man)' of 'em couldn't walk at all. \\ h\", sir. nine of 
'em died on m\' boat on one trip in the tew minutes we were 
transferring 'em to the- transport, an' diirieen died on another 
trip. One died going up the L;angway. The d nks were a 
mass of tilth trom involuntary acts ot nature;. \\\: had to turn 
on the hose and flood the decks with water. It's truly i)ititul I 
Whv, sir, one-third ot those ])Oor tellows 11 be tood for fishes." 

" I>enito Aranjo ! " called the sergeant. 

I had been watching IJenito as he slowly moved ujj the 
line supported by a comrade at each arm. As he neared the 
ship's port a slight tlush tinged his cheeks. Two men ahead 



360 /IDavtial Grarc5 

ot him I He straightened out his lank form and lifted up his 
head. One man ahead of him I His supporters slipped back 
into the ranks, leaxiuL;' him standiuL;' alone. One could see him 
brace to the task. He must make that gangway ! He cannot 
bear to be turnetl back or be assigned to the sick bav. it is a 
conflict between a strong will and a weak body that you are 
niAing. 

The sergeant repeated his call : " Benito Aranjo !" 

" Presente ! " 

There was a sad attempt to smile as he answered. The 
hand moved to the hat with a ner\'ous jerk. The body braced 
into an erect posture, and with a firm tread the man moved 
over the gangway through the double line of inspecting officers. 
I looked to see him stumble prone onto the deck ; but no, he 
reached the crowd beyond ere he sank down, and w^as lost to view. 

Poor Henito ! Poor Juan ! And poor Jose and Manuel, and 
all those other unhappy sons of Spain. And, alas, tor the 
mothers and wives who await them ; who await, never to see 
them more. There will be merry greetings when the survivors 
of these silent men reach Spain, l^ut, also, what tears and 
wailings as the returned shall shake their heads mourntuU)" and 
sa\' : " El es morto ! " — he is dead ! 

"I have seen man\' sights," said a surgeon one day at the 
Anglo-American Club. "I have l)een in cholera, smallpox and 
yellow-fever epidemics in the Mississijjpi River towns. I served 
through the war of the Sixties, and have been a mc^dical j)rofes- 
sor and practitioner ever since, but the scene at th(* burning of 
the Spanish dead to-day was the most revolting I ever saw. 
Did you hear about it ?" 

"No; what was it?" We all leaned lorward on the 
table, under that si)ell which draws men to gruesome 
narrative. 



SautKitio 111 lUiiu Lime •'>'>i 

"There were some toils- dmd hodics which lh<- Si)cUiiarcU 
could not bury, and were ordered to l)e crciiiateil. ( )n a j^raliiii;" 
ot iron railrocul lies ihc corpses wt^rc- piled up, inlcrniinL^lcd 
with wood, in a ^reat piU- as hii^h as this ceiling;. 1 hen ihc 
tuneral pyre was saturated with kerosene oil, and lh(,' torch was 
ai)plicd. The tire slowly kindh'd. d'hc llanu-s W(,'rc- hcLiinniiiL,;' 
to burn hiL;h ami overlap their unconscious \ictims, when a 
heavy rain came up and cpienched the fire. The cori)ses were 
but half consumed, and the sil^Iu " 

lUit I spare the reader. More than once I saw the thick 
columns of smoke from the cemeter)- precincts, and knew the 
ghastly scene which the\- signalleil. 1 have seen the dead cart 
leave the Civil Hospital tilled with uniotVined dead, who wen- 
dri\'en awa\' to tlu; same gruesome doom, but 1 did not ha\c 
the heart to follow them to their gehenna of tire. Alas, the 
aftermath of war is more rt-xoliing than war itself ! 

Shortly after the work of repatriation of the .Spanish troops 
had been completed, under date of ( )ctober 13th, iSoS. the 
Quartermaster's Department at Washington ga\e to the pul)lic 
a statement of the work of transporting to Spain the Spanisii 
prisoners surrendered at Santiago. The contract was given to 
the Spanish Trans-. \tlantic Comi^any tor the sum ol 5850.000. 
The work of transportation began .\ugust (ilh, and continued 
until September 1 ;ih, during which period litUM-n shii)s carrieil 
22,864 persons trom Santiago and Guatanamo to Si)ain. 1 hese 
were divided as follows: 1163 officers. 20.974 enlistetl men, 
331 women, the wixcs and daughters of the officers; 348 chil- 
dren of the ofhcers, 21 pi'iests and monks and 27 Sisters 
of Charity, 

The number ot persons carried wis one thcnisand short ot 
the number contracted tor, due to death amcMig the .Spanish 



o62 /iDai'tial Graves 

soldiers after the surrender and before repatriation began. 
About one thousand more soldiers died on shipboard. In other 
words, one-twentieth of the men who left the ports of Cuba 
never reached their native land. The statement was authorized 
that many of these soldiers were too ill to undertake the voyage 
and were forbidden to go aboard the ship by their doctors, but 
disobeyed the orders. All those who died in transit were buried 
at sea. The largest number of persons taken on one trij) was 
2555, on the transport which left Santiago August 27th, 1898. 
Even before the Spanish army had been repatriated, a 
similar movement began among American soldiers. It was 
continued on a small scale until the entire Fifth Corps had 
bet.Mi returned to the States. The experiences of the campaign 
ouoht to and doubtless will brinof about a radical change in the 
mode of dealing with soldiers, especially invalided men, during 
transit from tropical countries to their native shore. The pre- 
vailing theory appeared to be that nothing more than the 

ordinarv travel ration would be required by 

Soldiers ' i 1 • t 

_ , men under such cnxumstances. it was not 
on Transports 

considered that soldiers exhausted by hard 
service and sickness, and those who came directly from 
hospitals, could not prepare the travel ration allotted them, and 
even it they had been able to do so, would not get from it the 
nourishment which their cases recjuired. Of course, necessity 
knows no law. and there are conditions in some and occasions 
in all campaigns that must be satisfic^d bv inadccpiate provision. 
One cannot always reach his itleal. L'ndcr the cruel conditions 
of warfare, the ideal fociliti(?s of a hosi)ital must be sacrificed 
in and around tin; scenes of conflict. fUit there appears no 
sufficient reason why the rule above referred to should have 
been made inexorable, or \\h\- it should have been enforced in 
an\' case upon our transports. 



Santuiiio m IClar twiiiic -"Xj^J 

It would ha\c been easy lor the authcjrities to [)eriiiit, in all 
cases, as was clone in some, a money ecjuivalent for the travel 
ration, which couUl have been paid to the stewards of the 
\ari()us transports ior suitable to(jd suital)l\' i)rcparcd. and tor 
help in serving- the same. It is or it ought to be understood 
that most of the transports in Government service tluring the 
Spanish-American camjjaign were simply hired for the occasion. 
Their contract was to carr}' troops and military stores. It did 
not iiiclude feeding officers and soldiers antl cixilians in (io\<-rn- 
mcnt eniplo)-. Officers and others could be boarded tor a ^um 
not exceeding a dollar and a half a day. b^nhsted men must 
take care of themselves, although there was nothing except 
the cost to hinder them from pa\"ing tor tood j)repared by the 
stewards, if so disposed. lUit tew of the enlisted men could 
afford to purchase food from the ship's stores. As a result, 
sick soldiers on their voyage home were without jjrojx'r 
nourishment, and many suffered and some died as a result. 

Another point not duK' considered, was the proper clothing 
for men embarking tVom a tropical climate to a temperat(,' zone. 
INIy observation was that many soldiers put to sea clad in light 
khaki suits and without overcoats or extra covering. As soon 
as the vessel was freed from the; immediate inlluence ol the 
Cul)an climate, it was liable to experience a decidetl droj) in 
temperature. As the ship ai)proached the American coast, this 
was much greater, and I have seen well men siifter severely 
from lack of adequate clothing. What must have been the 
condition of iinalids ? ( )n one transport on which I sailed, 
there was but one overcoat and one heavy mackintosh in a com- 
pany of nearly a hundred officers and men. The consequences 
can be readil\- imagined when the sh'p approached Northern 
New York, anil was exi)osed to the togs and chills ot early 
autunin. 



364 /iDavtial Graves 

There is another fact that did not seem to be calculatixl 
upon. There is a stranoe influence in a chano^e of chmate to 
induce a sudden change in one's physical condition. Sometimes 
this is for the better, but often it is for the worse. For example, 
I noticed that men who embarked from Cuba in apparent good 
health, had no sooner fairly entered the distinct ocean environ- 
ment than they were taken with chills, and suffered Irom calen- 
tura during- the entire voyage. On landing they had to be sent to 
a hospital. This fact is known to the medical profession and to 
others. There is scarcely a season during which visitors from 
the interior to the seashore do not find, much to their surprise, 
that they are suddenly attacked with sickness. So, on the con- 
trary', persons coming from the seashore to the interior will be 
seized with malarial fevers. This common experience shows 
that a decided change of local or climatic condition often tends to 
bring out thtt latent germs of certain diseases in the human 
s)stem. 

Apparently this fact was not counted on in transporting 
our soldiers from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Certainly many con- 
valescents experienced a relapse of fever, and those who seemed 
to be well fell ill. Much of the discredit which came to Camp 
W'ikoff at IMontauk Point was doubtless due to this curious 
tendency, and the men of the Fifth Corps who became sick on 
the voyage or shortly after landing, would have suffered ecjually 
had they been s(*nt to any other place. The special point to be 
considered is that it does not al\va)'s do for the medical depart- 
ment to depend upon the service of soldiers who embark appar- 
entl\- well, to nurse the sick on transports sailing from tropical 
countries, for those relii^d upon for such hel[)ful duty are likely 
to sicken and thus add to the burdens of the situation. I may 



Santiaiio in XGar Lime •n;:> 

best Illustrate llu- [loints w liicli 1 liavc Iktc soiii^ht to make by 
relating- my experience on board the; transport Scourama/-- 

My special labors in Cuba were stopped ])y a sucKlen 
attack of Cuban fever, and I left Santiasj^o, on the Sa^'nnTNca, 
September i6th. A number of officers and ukmi, most of 
whom were invalids and convalescents returniiiL,'^ Iiouk; to join 
their regiments, were on this vessel. Some of them IkuI bet-n 
carried out of the yellow fever hosj)ital at Santiago with nothing 
but their pajamas and blankets, and in a ver\- low condition. 
To care tor thes{^ invalids nothing had been pro\ided except 
the ordinary soldier's tra\-el rations and some plain so\ips. h 
was at once manifest to the skillful, kindly surgeon. Maj. W . 1>. 
Banister, detailed for duty on the ship, that it would be impossi- 
ble to sustain all these lives during the vox'age upon such 
nutriment. After consultation with the surgeon and hospital 
stewards, I asked the privilege ot j)ro\iding trom the ship's 
store suitable food, including its preparation by the ship's 
cooks, and its serving by the stewartls' crew of waiters. Thus 
a sick diet was procured, including such ai'ticles as boiletl eggs, 
toast and tea, hot milk, milk punches, mutton choi)s, tresh-meat 
broths, etc. 

The result of this treatment ma\' l)e expresse<l in the 
language of Assistant Surgeon Xewkirk, who had been on 
duty in the General Hospital at .Siboney. and wa-i on board 
suffering, like myself, from calentura. W hen Ijidiling me 
good-bye on the cjuarantine tug in New \'()rk harbor, he saiil : 
" When we started upon this voyage, I ccjntidenlly expected 
that we would leave at least a halfdo/eii of these men to sleep 



* It ought to be stated that at present the (^uaiterm. >ter"s Department owns most of its 
transports, some of which are admirably etpiipped, and as tar as I have learned, the service is 
satisfactory, certainly highly superior to that rendered during the Cuban campaign. 



36fi fmartial Gravct? 

in the depths of Old Ocean. Throui^h the aid which you have 
extended, not a man lias been lost, antl e\en our dying- yellow 
fever patient will be buried ashore. It is due to you to make 
this statement." 

The chief surgeon in charge, Maj. W. R. Banister, of the 
regular army, Brigade Surgeon U. S. \\, handed me a letter, a 
part of which I quote: "Dear Doctor : As we are approach- 
ing th(' 'parting of the ways.' I wish to express to you, on the 
])art of m\' patients and nnself. our thanks for the assistance 
furnished on the voyage from Santiago de Cuba to Montauk 
Point, L. I., in the way of funds, which enabled me to provide 
the sick committed to my charge with pro^^er and necessary 
diet, hi my opinion, some lives were saved thereby, and men 
lontJ'incr for home were enabled to see their hopes fulfilled. I 
also desire to express my appreciation of other help in your 
ministerial capacit)-, which cannot be expressed in commercial 
values." 

These simple statements tell the whole story. The physi- 
cal comfort of all those in\'alid and convalescent soldiers was 
much promoted, and some of their lives were saved by pro- 
viding for them " projjer and necessary diet," which the con- 
trolling authority had failed to furnish. The ship's officers 
could not do this, for they were only custodians of the owners' 
propert)-. The surgeons, however willing to sacrifice their 
scant income to relie\-(' their patients, had not th(^ means in 
hand. It so happened that I had funds at my disposal-^' which 
were given for such uses. On this circumstance, accidental or 
providential as one chooses to view it. the comfort of many and 
the lives of sexeral of those heroes of the Fifth Army Corps 
depended. 



* Contributed l)y Mr. and Mrs. William J. Swain, members of my congregation, and 
deiiosited by me with tbe National Relief Commission. 



Saiitiaoo in lUav Zimc .'Xw 

When the Scoii)-aiua was sent troin MoiUauk r()iiU. where 
it could not be permitted to hind on account of the fellow fe\-er 
case on board, as tli(^ detention hosi)ital there had then been 
broken up, a new ditticuhx' arose. Vwv or six of our patients, 
who had been turned in h-oni the yehow fe\-er hospital at San- 
tiago with no clothing;' but pajamas, must be provided with 
suitable clothes for the transfer to a hos[)ital in Xew \'ork. \o 
such extra garments were available. In this exioencv 1 h\ I^ar- 
rett. ot Boston, re-lieved the situation. He represented the 
Mas.sachusetts Soldiers' and Sailors' Aid Association, and had 
done splendid service among the sick in Santiago, lie went 
among- the soldiers, and jnu'chased from one a pair of trousers ; 
from another a blouse : from a thinl socks ; from a fourth uinler- 
clothes, and so on, until all were clad. The outfit was some- 
what heterogeneous, and the fit was not immaculate, Init at that 
particular juncture the lads of the V\h\\ Cori)s were not addicted 
to dress suits. A double kindness was thus wrought. The 
naked invalitls were; clothed and the soKliers who s|)ared tin- 
extra garments got a little cash, which they greatly needed. 

When it came to furnishinor hats the o-ood Doctor was 
" sore put to it." I lowever, the passengers took \\\) the matter. 
and we found among us enough extra hats and laps to meet 
the requirements of the case;. The author was belter off in 
headgear than any of his fellow-passengers, for l"'sides his 
Cuban helmet he had a campaign hat and a sailor's white 
hat i)urchased on board a man-of-war, and these went into 
" the pool." Somewliere in the city ot Chicago a sergeant of 
the hirst Illinois Infantry doubtless treasures a camjjaign hat as 
a souvenir of his voyage- on the .SV.^'7//'^?';/r^?' .- . antl in a thriving 
village of Eastern (^hio, a war corresj:)Oi'dent from " the Presi- 
dent's Own" regim(-nt ma\' retain among tlu- li'ophies ol his 



S(i8 /liiartial Graves 

Cuban campaign a sailor's hat that once adorned the head of 
the Chaplain of the Second Pennsylvania Recriment of Infantry. 
It was a delightful pri\ilege to engage in such a good work, 
but none the less, the Government of the L'nited States, through 
its proper authorities, should have made the work unnecessary /=' 



* I do not remember the names of all my fellow-voyagers on the St-gn)ania for whom I 
was permitted to do these kindly offices in behalf of my generous congregation. But I have 
thought of them, and have learned that they passed safely through the New York Hospital. 
Wherever they are I wish them well, and will be pleased to know that they are prosperous and 
happy citizens of the Republic whose honor they sustained by valor upon the field and suftering 
4n the hospital and on shi[)board. 



Chapter XII 
Relief Work Amono- Soldiers 



21 



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\CE this soft turf, this rivulet" s sands, 
Were trampled by a hurrying crowd. 

And fiery hearts and armed hands 
Encounter" d in the battle-cloud. 

Ah, never shall the land forget 

How gushed the life-blood of her brave, — 
Gush'd, warm with hope and courage yet, 

Upon the soil they fought to save. 

Now all is calm, and fresh, and still ; 

Alone the chirp of flitting bird, 
And talk of children on the hill. 

And bell of wandering kine, are heard. 

No solemn host goes trailing by 

The black-mouth" d gun and staggering wain 
Men start not at the battle-cry, — 

Oh, be it never heard again ! 

— William Cullex Bryant. 



Relief Work Among Soldiers 



r^^SS^HE outbreak of the Spanish-American war was the 
^^ ^^ signal for the organization of voluntary associations 




to aid in caring for sick and wounded soldiers and 
■ ■iwa^^ sailors. =•== Among the most active and useful of these 



was the American Red Cross Society which was supported 
chiefly by a Relief Committee of \ew York citizens, but had 

,, , ^., affiliated or independent branches in several 

Voluntary Aid ,, ^ ,.- . . , . , 

Societies 'States. Lalitornia formed an mdependent organi- 
zation, whose attention was given especiallv to 
the soldiers embarking on the Pacific for the Philippines, and 
accomplished a large amount of valuable work. 

The head of the Red Cross Society, Miss Clara Barton, 
took personal supervision of the work among the natives in 
Cuba, in which she was nobly supported by a number of volun- 
teer workers. This relief of the starvinof and sufterinci- Cubans 
was the chief service rendered by this Societ)- during hostilities 
and thereafter. But a timely and most valuable aid was 
extended to the surgeons of the Fifth Army Corps immediately 
after the battles of July ist in front of Santiago. The Red 
Cross supply ship S/c7/c of Ti.vds was oft shore at the time 
awaiting opportunity to enter Santiago, and the lack of adequate 

* Even if space permitted the author has not the inromiation at hand to enable hitn to men- 
tion all these societies. He can only refer brietiy to several oi those with whose work or 
workers he happened to have personal relations of some sort. 



372 /iDartial Graves 

preparation for the care ot the numerous wounded was so 
manifest, and the need of the rehef so apparent that workers 
landed at Siboney and contributed personal aid and much 
needed supplies. ?yliss Ikirton came up the Las Guasimas Pass 
to the First Division Hospital near Gen. Shafter's headquarters, 
and at once organized a field diet kitchen, while her aids helped 
to care for the wounded. The story of this work has been well 
told 1)\' Mr. George Kennan,'-" who was on the field as a Red 
Cross helper. When the S/atc of Texas entered vSantiago, Ju]\- 
17th, with supplies for the citizens, the wants of the soldiers 
were again met by timely and liberal issues of food, medicines 
and delicacies on requisition from army officers. -j- 

Another active society was the Woman's National W'ar 
Relief Association, whose headquarters were in New York City. 
Mrs. Gen. U. S. Grant was the President of this Society. Mrs. 
Ellen Hardin Walworth ;i; was Director-General, and after her 
departure for Camp W^ikoft, to engage in personal work with 
the- soldiers, the management of the Association fell to Miss 
Helen Gould, the Assistant Director-General. This lad\', by 
her large gifts for the suffering soldiers and by her fine execu- 
tive ability, did much to make the Woman's \\ ar Relief Asso- 
ciation one ot the worthiest volunteer agencies for good. Her 
benefactions won the unusual and distintruished honor of receiv- 
ing the public thanks of the United States .Senate in Congress 
met. The Treasurer of the Association was Mrs. Cliarles H. 
Raymond wh(jse tragic death shortly after the cessation of hos- 
tilities e.Kcited widespread sorrow. Mrs. Kugene McLean was 
the efficient Corresponding Secretary. 

* In a series of letters to 77ie Outlook and in his l)3ok '• Canipaigninu in Cuba." 

f.See "The Red Cross," by Clara Barton, p. 650. 

:j: This lady's daughter, Miss Reubena II. Walworth, was the Registrar of the Association, 
and went to Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, as a volunteer nurse. She contracted typhoid fever 
in the hospital wards and died therefrom. 



IRclict" VGorh Xlmotui SolMcri? :^7.s 

In New l-'iiL^hind the niosi imjioriaiit oi'L^aiii/alion was the 
Massachusetts Ann\- and \a\\' Aid Association wiili hcad- 
(juarters at I)Ost()n. Its lari^c bcnctacticMis were not limited to 
the troops of Massachusetts, Ijut were extended to all who 
needec^relief. One of the most helptiil workers, I )r. Ihirrett, 
was stationed in Santiago. 

The first volunteer aid association in the field was tlie 
National Relief Commission, whose orL^ani/ation was bei^un in 
Philadelphia on April 17, 1 SgS, when war seemed inevitable. 
and was com[)letcil April 25th at a public mectluL; in the hall 
of the \ ouul; Men's Christian Association. An executive 
committee was then formed, of which thc^ author was chairman 
until he entered uj)on actixe dut)- in the arm\-. Mr. John 11. 
Converse, of the Ikddwin Locomotive Works, one ot the most 
intelligent, pIiilanlhroi)ic and generous citizens ot (lie l\ci)ublic, 
was chosen president, and Mr. (ieorge \\\ 'Thomas, the liberal 
and public-spirited head of the banking tirm ot Drexel t^ Co., 
was elected treasurc-r. M. S. brench was made general secre- 
tar)'. The constituenc)' and otiicial membcrshi]) ot tlu; National 
Relief Commission were drawn trom a number ot States, but 
the three adjoining .States of bennsvK ania, \< \v jersey ami 
Delaware were especially active and promintiit in its su])port. 
Its operations wer(' contmed to the relief ot American soldiers, 
sailors and marines and their needy tamilies. aiul -xtended to 
all the camps formed in the United States from Montauk I'oint 
to Key W^est, and also to the camj)s in and around Santiago de 
Cuba. The service rendered in Puerto Rico was especially 
valualjle, and the I'elief ship, llic Maw carried large quantitit.'s 
of hospital supplies to tliat Island, which were greatly needed. 
A medical field agent was maintaii '-d at San Juan during 
the war. 




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I he C oniinissioii also co opcralcd willi rcL^inK'iUal cha])- 
lalns and with the \ oiin^ Men's ( liristiaii Association in 
promotino- moral ant! religious work anions lh<- soldiers and 
sailors, and in tlistribiitino- sacred and secular literatnre. A 
hundred thousand copies of its ".Soul;' Hook lor Soldiers and 
Sailors" and its "Spanish I'hras{^ Hook'" were distributed 
freely. Moreover, a lar^'e number of need\- families of xolun- 
teers was aided by month!)' grants of mone\' dman:^- the cam- 
paig"n. The National Relief Commission, or, as it was some- 
times called, the 'AVhite Cross SocietN," from the siKcr cross 
in th(; centre ol the blue held ot its banner and badi^c, will 
loner be remembered with ijratitude b\ thousands of those who 
took part in the Spanish-American war, and b\' the parents and 
friends of those who suffered through batthi wountls antl 
diseases. 

The attitude; toward xolunteer aitl societies of the medical 
departments of both the army and na\ y at the beninnin^' 
of the war determined that of the ( ieneral (io\ci-nment. It was 
substantially that there would be no need ot \(ihiiuar\- aid, as 
the ordinar)' machinery ot the departments was adeipiate lor 
every situation likely to develop. lUit in(piirers were noiitied 
that money sent to the heads of the dejiai-imcMits would be used 
to supplement with extra comtorls the tixed ( 'io\ ernmeiu appro- 
priations for the sick and injured. 1 lappiK', this attitude was 
justilied in the; na\\', whose unj)aralleled victories were won at 
a cost in casualties that seems incredible. lUit in the army it 
was otherwise. Ihe outbreak ot \anous diseases, anil especi- 
ally the epidemic of typhoid lexer, in the camps of instruction. 
jKirticularly Camp .Mi^ia- and Camp Thomas, showed that the 
Medical Department could not mec:t the situation unaided. Ihe 
facts confirmed the position taken by the advocates ot \-oluntary 



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aid societies. As soon as the necessity appeared, however, the 
proffered help was not only cheerfully l)iit gratefully accepted, 
and facilities extenchxl in all quarters to authorized agents and 
other workers to bring relief to the soldiers. From the begin- 
ning Gen. Alg(M-, the Secretary of War, was most cordial 
toward the National Relief Commission, and as early as the 
middle of lune issued an order giving authority and protection 
to its agents in all cantonments of the United States Army. 

Later in the summer the benefacdons of aid societies took 
the direction of bringing army invalids, })articularly typhoid 
cases, to city hospitals. The use of these admirable institutions 
had been ottered the Government at the outbreak of war, and 
apparently had not even been considered. But when the great 
necessity developed, that army surgeons could not adequately 
meet, the authorities turned to the hospitals. With wise 
humanity the Medical Department directed the removal of fever 
patients from field to city hospitals, and this was done largely 
under the supervision of aid societies. The hospitals w^elcomed 
the soldiers : the best attention that modern medical and nursing- 
skill could afford was given them, and thus hundreds of lives 
were saved. On the whole, one must conclude that the work 
of volunteer aid associations was of the highest value to the 
Government in meeting the casualties inevitable to warfare. 

This fact is not surprising, nor is it discreditable to the 
Government, e.xcept perhaps for the failure to recognize it 
sooner. The established medical staff, based upon an army of 
twenty-five thousand men, and scattered throughout the entire 
nation, could not possibly overtake the work suddenly thrown 
upon it by the calling out of a (piarter of a million of volunteers. 
The regular army surgeons, with few exceptions, were inex- 
perienced in the care of large bodies of men, for their labors 




JijlLN II I.MAN CONVERS:-; 

Prcsiiknt cf llie jVii/ioiial Re/iff Co//iwiss!cn 
Fig. 164 



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had been limited to the care of companies or battahons. rarely 
of regiments, stationed at posts on the frontier or elsewhere. 
The campaign was so brief that there was no opportunity to 
develop special abilities and to recognize the same, nor to prune 
out those; unable to ex[)and their personal horizon to meet the 
enlarged situalion. There is no doubt that, as in the Civil War, 
matters would have corrected themselves had the campaign 
been prolonged. This is evident from the fact that there ai)pears 
to be little complaint of the treatment of our soldiers in the 
Philippines during the war against the hostiles. The serious 
mistake made was undoubtedly the failure of the head of the 
Medical Department to recognize what was so plain to the 
organizers of relief associations, viz., that the lessons of the past 
and the prevailing conditions indicated that governmental organi- 
zation would recpiire to be supplemented by poi)ular support. 
One can appreciate the unwillingness of a thoroughly 
equipped and devoted body of men, such as compose the 
medical corps of our army, to admit the inadequacy of their 
system to meet the largest demands. But there is a limit to 
human powers ; and it ought to have been understood that an 
army of three hundred thousand men on a war footing, could 
not be served by an organization adapted for twenty-five thou- 
sand on a peace footing. Moreover, it should have been seriously 
considcM'ed that under the inlluenc(; of a tropical climate at the 
unhealthy s(;ason. and the exposures of camp and battlefield, 
the little corps of surgeons and the vast army of soldiers would 
alike be depleted by prevailing diseases, and thus as the num- 
ber of sick increased tlu; numl)er of surgeons would diminish, 
and the disproportion between the two be continually widened. 
It is true, that when the necessities developed, contract doctors 
as actincr-assistant sur^reons were hurried into the field, and soon 



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greatly rclie\ctl the situation. IWit thcx' cainc loo late to pre- 
vent tlie nnliai)p\- conditions \\hi( h caused so niucii needless 
suflerino- in the lirst few wicks of the campaign, and which 
awakened throughout the countrx- a storm of re])roach and 
condemnation. 

luit alter all, it should not he forgotten, it is not forgotten, 
that the parties upon whom falls the responsiliilii\ of our inade- 
quate preparation tor war and its inevitable conse<piences. are 
not to be looked lor in the Army or in the War I")e|)aMment. 
The Nation's Representatives in Congress, who. knowing this 
country's unpreparedness (which, imleed, their ignorance and 
neglect had caused) rushed an unwilling administration and an 
unready army and navy upon the awful chances of conflict on sea 
and in foreign lands, are the men upon w horn iustlv rests the guilt 
ot the needless siillering and waste of life in the .Sj)anish .\ineri- 
can War. Others ma\- ha\(? the- right to cc-nsurc- whc-rc- there 
is righteous cause therefor, but the hue and cr\- which some of 
these men haxc raised against the President and his hc!;tds of 
De]:)artments is regarded by caiukKl j)cM'sons as simply the ruse 
of the fleeing rogue who seeks to co\c-r his llight Iw the cr\- of 
" Sto]) thief I " 

Among the xoluntar)' agencies which wrcnight tor the l)ene- 
tit oi soldiers during the .Sj:)anish-.\merican war. one of the 

most active and most usetul w.is the \ Oung M<-n"s 
Y. M. C. A. Christian Association. It would be hard to e.\j)res.s 

in adequate language the cc:)mfort and help which 
this organization brought to oiu' men. Its functions were varied, 
and were directed to the j)h\sical. social and moral welfare 
ot the soldiei-s. The beginning ol the arnu work ol the 
Association was \er\" simple and has not. 1 believe, been made 
public. 



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On the 25th of April a meeting was held at the rooms of 
the \"ouno- Men's Christian Association in Philadelphia, Fifteenth 
and Chestnut Streets, to complete the organization of The 
National Relief Commission. During that meeting, in response 
to questions by members of the executive committee, the 
author of this book, who was then president of the committee, 

mentioned a number of 
methods b)' which the Com- 
mission could contribute to 
the soldiers' comfort and 
health. Among other facts, 
he referred to 
the lack of 
facilities for 
letter writing 
which he had 
o b s e r \- e d 
d u r i n g his 
service as a 
chaplain in 
the C i \' i 1 
War, and for 
man\ years in 

the camps of the National (kiard of Pennsylvania. lie pro- 
posed that the Relief Commission should at once procure large 
quantities of paper, envelopes and stamps, and make arrange- 
ments to distribute the former and sell the latter, or to dispose 
of all needed stationary at the first cost of purchase. This had 
been the author's custom as chai)lain, and had been of much 
benefit to the men in keeping them in touch with home and home 
friends, and thus indirecdy contributing to their moral welfare. 




.Iniiy lent of V. -1/. 
C. A. 



Fig. 166 
R(git7iciilal Encaiiipnictil at I\ll. Grc/na. 



IRclict lUorh Biuouo ^I^olMcii: 3mi 

The SLig-gestion was liiL^hl)- a|)i)rovc(l. and would have been 
taken up by the Commission l)ut for the follow ini; circumstance : 

Seated on a back seat in the hall during this meeting was 
one of the secretaries of the Philadelphia Youn^^ Mrn's Chris- 
tian Association, Mr. flalsey Hammonil, who was much 
impressed by the above statement. 1 he ne.xt day he went to 
Mr. John H. Converse, who had been elected President of thr 
National Relief Commission, and nho is, as he has lon^' been, 
one of the warmest friends and patrons of the \'ounj4" Men's 
Christian Association. To him Mr. Hammond sug^^ested that 
the work of distributing stationery he turned over to the Asso- 
ciation, and he j)k'(li4cd himself and all the facilities of the 
institution to do the work thoroughly. Mr. Coincrse wisely 
assented to this recpiest. 

Xot a moment of time was lost. The Pcnns) 1\ ania (iuartl 
had already been ordered into Camp ilastinc^s at .Ml. drclna. 
Mr. Hammond rented two large tents, ha^l prepared (piantities 
of paper and tMnc'loi)es having thereon the letterhead ot the 
Association, laid in a supply of postage stamps, furnished a 
camj) outfit for himself and assistants, had his material shipj)ed. 
and was on the ground as soon as the troc^ps, ready tor work. 
1 had the j)leasure ol seeing one of these l)ig circular tents 
which afterward became so familiar to all the soldiers ot the 
Spanish-American war, erected in Camp 1 lastings, near the 
headquarters of Gen. Schall, and the \oung men starting their 
philanthropic and patriotic work therein. This was the begin- 
ning of the movement. 

It was taken up by \'()ung Men's Christiar. .\ssociations 
throughout the entire country, and in a short time a special inter- 
national committee was organized to conduct the army and na\ y 
work, whose chairman was Col. tohn [. .McCook, of New \ ork 




P^ Ss 



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IRelief TOlovh Bmouii i5ol^lCl•i? .'i^a 

City. I h;i\c sv.v.n and carefully ohsurx-cd the operations ol th(! 
Association in all the jM-incipal camps ihronL^hoiii ihi: I nitfil 
States and in the camps of tlu- I'ikh Army Corps near Santia_^o. 
I am, th(M-etore, in a situation to bear witness t(3 its no])l(; efficiency. 

One of the pleasantest sights in our L^reat cantonmtMUs at 
Camp Alger, at Jacksonville, at Tampa, at Chickamau^a and 
elsewhere, was the tent of the \'ounL;' Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation. At almost any time of the da\- or evening one would 
find them not only occupied but crowded Near the entrance 
w-as the little enclosure of rude planks at which the field secre- 
tary stood to issue freely, to ail who asked, writing paper and 
envelopes, antl to sell stamps at g()\-ermnenl jirices, or secure 
suitable endorsement as a " soldier's lettc-r." Close by hung 
an immense bag which gradually filled up as the da\- advanced, 
and morning and evening and sometimes ottener a hall l)ushel 
of mail would be carried awd)- for distribution by the army 
post. On one side of the enclosure were erected rough 
board tables, on either side; of which were board seats. 
As a rule every foot of space would b(; occupied by a soldier 
writing a letter, for which service jx-ncils or pen and \nk were 
at hand. Numbers of soldiers for whom thert; was no room at 
the tables would be seated in vacant corners, and in the gang- 
w'ays writing on their knees or hats or on e.xtemporized desks, 
letters to the loved ones at home. On the ojipositt; side ot the 
tent other groups would be engaged in some amusement, such 
as pitching quoits, playing dominoes or checkers. 

Outside, here and there, would be knots of men chatting 
with one another, smoking and talking over camp life, and 
exchanging news from home, or listening to the leading ot a 
newspaper — a month oKl. if in Cuba. Near b\ the door one 
would often see a hogshead of pure wat. r. in the midst of which 



IRclict lUorM BlllOlU.l S0l^lCVi> 385 

were bobbino- oreat lumps uf ice. What sweet music the 
chunks made as they cHnked a^rainst one anotlier : and what a 
pleasure it was to mark the /.est with which th(r lads ((ualTed the 
cooling beverag-e ! Not far away was th(? army canteen pursu- 
ing, under Government i)ermissi()n. its demorah/inL; and 
destructive work. It was, indeed, a happy contrast furnished 
at the headquarters of the Young Men's Christian Association, 
in the beautiful work sustained by the voluntary offerings of 
the Christian people of the land. The Association tent became 
the social centre of regiments and brigades. It was tlie point 
at which men rallied for the. exchange of all sorts of news and 
confidences. It was such an attractive spot that even some 
soldiers (as I happen to know) who were j)rovided by their 
parents with writing paper and stamped enveloix-s. preferred to 
do their correspondence in the Association tent among their 
comrades. As the home folks turned up their daily packets of 
mail, the letter from the dear lad in camp was recognized by the 
Association imprint on the corner of the* envelope, side by sitle 
with a figure of the national llag. 

It is, of course, impossible to estimate tht^vholesome inllu- 
ence which such an institution, redolent with the; sweet thoughts 
and holy inlUiences of home life must ha\-e wrought upon the 
youth in our camps. M iilliliides ot parents remember this 
work with grateful hearts, and among the soldiers thcmsehes 
the field w^orkers were held in high esteem and regarded with 
the utmost friendliness. The Association has made friends that 
will never forget it, and has laid the whole nation under an 
obligation which should Ik; aiul has been recognized. In the 
memories of the future, next to the revc-red symbol of our 
nationality, the colors under which thc-y i larched and fought, 
the soldiers of the Spanish-American war will recall with the 



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keenest pleasure aiul highest veneration the banner above the 
door of the bii^ tent that bore the famihar letters. " Y. M. C. A." 
Statistics give an inatle(|uate measure of such services, but 
they ma\' indicate the amount of labor wrought by the field 
secretaries among the cjuarter of a million of young men in the 
army and navy during the Spanish war. The character of the 
work done in one tent may be cited as an example, that 




ill,, linj 

Li7'iug fenl of field s,'cye/aries of llu- Y. M. C. ./. 

jjitched near the b'irst Pennsylvania Rctgiinent at Camp 
Thomas, Chickamauga. In this one tent there was a total 
aggregate attendance; during the summer encampment of 
175.750, which is an average of 1673 daily \isits by soldiers 
who used its privileges. Over 1000 letters a day were written 
in this tent, making an aggregate of 1 12,350. At the various 
entertainments given by th(; stxretaries. 13.500 soldiers were 



IRclict IGorh Iliiiouii ^^olMcvi^ ;{»7 

present. At ihc rtli-ious services, iisiialK' held in the cxciiini;. 
there was an attendance of 22.j^i). More ihan vhx. I'.iMes 
and Testaments were L;I\<'n out, not inchscriniinatel)-, Init to 
soldiers who asked for thcin, and who thus oave proof that 
they felt the nv.rA ol tliciu. There were se\(-nt}- siuiilar tents 
in service in the various corps and di\isions of the army. and. 
as far as one could see. they all seemed to be ecpially ijojjular 
amono- the soldiers, and ecpially active in their work, it is. 
therefore, probably a fair estimate that from thre(,- to fwv. 
millions of letters were forwarded to soldiers through the 
ao-ency of the Army and Xa\ y Committee of the N'ouns^ Men's 
Christian Association, all of which were written upon i)aper 
and enclosed within enxeloju-s presentetl to the soldiers by 
their Christian friends. 

'Ihe spiritual work accomplished by the \nun-- men cannot 
be calculated in fioures, but there are doubtless thousands 
throuo;hout the nation who owe to these Christian heroes the 
sacred inllnences which brouL^ht them to the bet^nnninL,'- of a 
Christian lite. There are doulnless many thousands mor<- who 
owe to the same beneficent labors the influences which enabled 
them to resist the temptations of camj:) life, and maintain their 
manly dignity and Christian faith throughout the campaij^n. 

I ha\-e called the field secretaries Christian heroes. The 
title is deserved. They shared with the soldiers all the |n-i\a- 
tions and e.xposure of camp life. 'The)- livetl in tents on the 
field. They were exposed e{[uall\ with tin- soldiers to the 
assaults ot malaria and of fever _L;erms. with which oiu' _L;reat 
camps were infested. The two secretaries attached to thi? 
Cuban arm\- 1 saw in SaniiaL^o, wasted by hard work .md 
climatic (cvvv. 'They stuck to the T'ifth Corps until its exodc, 
shared with the soldiers the peril of exposure to yellow fever, 




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6 ^ 



IRclicf "IGorh Bmonci Sol^lcri? 389 

torrid sun and torrential r.iins, scant tood and inadc(|iiatc; care, 
and left behind them an honorahh- record ol selt-denyin^' duly 
well done. This is heroism. 

One's thoughts pass natin'all)' trom the arnn work •>! the 
Young Men's Christian Association to the rc;ligious and other 
Soldiers' songs which thcr soldiers used. 1 he hynins and 
Hymns and songs most popular diu'ing wartime in Santiago 
Songs and elsewhere present an int(n"esting and in some 
respects a curious study. It would seem strange, tor example, 
that such a hymn as 

'•Nearer, my (iod, to Thee, nearer to Thee; 
E'en though it be a Cross, that raist-th me," 

shoidd be the most popular and appartMith^ the most widel\- 
known among all classes of soldiers. Vet it is so. When con- 
ducting services as chaplain in the camps and hospitals ot the 
Fifth Army Corps, and upon ships of war and transports, as 
well as in the camps ii^ the States. I found that when this hymn 
was announced, all the soldiers took hearty i)art in singing. 
One would hardly think that the high spiritual note touched in 
this familiar hymn, which breathes longing for a nearer spiritual 
communion with God, even at the cost of utmost sacrifice. 
would truly voice the sentiment ot the rough and read\-. olleii- 
times coarse and i)rofane men, who joined with their more 
religious comrades in singing. ^ et such was the case. It was 
the most favorite hymn at funcM-als. a fact that perhaps can be 
understood more easily. All soldiers are more or less aflected 
by the sense of the near i)resence of death. The loss of their 
comrades is indeed "a cross ;" and in the true spirit of cama- 
raderie they feel a touch of woe that tht companions of the tent 
and of the march, who shared with them the toils and perils of 
battle, have passed awa\'. 




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"I lu; lunin which ranked in pojiiilaiMlN n(.-.\l lo " Xcarcr, 
my God, " is prohahK' " Rotk ot Al;('s. ' ll wiH Ix- observed 
that Col. Rooscxck, in speaking- ot the burial ot Roul^Ii Riders 
at Las Guasimas. sa)s that the soldiers san*^- this liyinn in the 
service at the ^ra\-e, while Mr. John I'Ox cites " Nearer, niy 
God, to Thee" as the hymn then siuil;. It is not strange that 
one of these writers should have experienced a lapse of mem- 
ory, as either of the two hymns would be naturally associated 
with such an occasion, lietter known. j)erhai)s, than either ot 
these is the national anllieni (which we sIul;- to the national inne 
of Great Britain), " M\- Country, 'tis of Thee.'" ( )r course, all 
the soldiers know the tune, and many of them know at least a 
part of the verses. This Innin is now universally tauL,dit in 
our pn])lic schools, wliich will account for the familiaritx ot the 
young- men of our ann\- willi both words and tune, h would 
be an act of patriotism and of i)hilanthro]>\- as well, it the 
above and other catholic- hymns should be taught in public 
schools. Hut to the fact that most of our soldiers had at one 
time or anoth(;r attended .Sunda)- school, and llv r<- learned tlie 
bestd^nown Inmns of the Christian Church, is due their tamili- 
arity with such hymns as " Rock of Ages," " Jisus, l.o\cr ot 
my Soul" and "Nearer, my God, to Thee." In main- ot the 
camps the men would gather in lh<' evening around a lilde 
oToup of leaders, who had formed a temporary choir )r chorus, 
and sing home songs. Almost invariably most of those sung 
were those they had learned in the Sabbath-school. Many ol 
these were at once recalled as those conlainetl in the well 
known "Gospel lixnins" ot Moody and Sanke\'. 

The great tents of the Young .Men's Christian .\ssociation 
were also centres of holy song, especially h the evening or at dusk. 



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Then the field secretaries would kindle their llaring torches and 
standincr in front of the tent or under the broad shelter of a 
near by tree would strike up a familiar hymn. As the notes 
rolled away amon^- the tents the. blue coats be^-an to stir in the 
Company streets and move toward the sinoer. One and 
another would take up the tune even while walking along, and 
soon a great company would be gathered in consecutive circles 
around the Secretary, all heartily singing to well known melo- 
dies the dear h)mns so closely and sweetly associated with 
church and Sunday-school and the loved ones at home. One 
who has heard this even-song of the soldiers swelling through 
the oak and maple woods of Chickamauga, or the tall pines of 
Tampa, or rising amid Cuba's groves of royal palms and cocoa- 
nuts, will not soon forget. 

Mr. Stephen Bonsai, who was present during the entire 
campaign in Santiago, was passing up from the army headquar- 
ters near the San |uan Ford about ten o'clock on the evening 
of July i6th. He heard a body of troops approaching, march- 
ing at ease down the road leading from San Juan Heights 
toward Sevilla and Siboney. They sang as they came, and long 
before they reached the ford he knew that it must be a column 
of colored soldiers, as no other men in the army could sing as 
they sang. They trudged along through the darkness up to 
their knees in the mud, and as they came to the ford and 
crossed it through the shadows of the trees that overhang the 
stream from either bank, they sang with their deep, rich voices : 

•' When through the deep waters I call thee to go. 
The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow." 

.Sto[>ping to make incpiirs', Mr. IJonsal learned that it was 
the Twenty-fourth Infantry on its way to Sibone)-. w^hither it had 



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been oi'dcrcd to L^uard ihr. sick in the yellow fever hosjjital. 
The\- were tlirected to ])iish on and assume their tryin;^- tluties 
at daybreak in the niornin-. and so the\- wer(t makiii:,; a ni^ht 
march. For a lon^' tinu- after the coluinii liad disajjixarcd. 
swallowed iij) in the darkness, the war correspondent (.<nil<l 
hear the manly and melodious voices ol the braxi- black men 
who shirked no dut)-, whether upon the battletield or in the pr«-s- 
ence of the noisesome pestilence, sini^ing- their hymn ot divine 
consolation and sup[)ort : 

•'I'll strcnL;th('n thee, help tluic, and cause thee to stand. 
I'phcld ])\- m\- righteous omni[jotcnt I land." 

In connection with this incident may be related an act ot 
moral courai^e that has often been told and merits the utmost 
publicity. Wdien the Twenty-fourth Regiment reached the yel- 
low fever hospital at Siboney. it was found to be in a deplorable 
condition. Men were dying every hour from lack ot proper 
nursing. Dr. Louis La Garde, the heroic surgeon who had 
charge of the hos[)ital. appealed for Noluntecr nurses to Maj. 
Markley who commanded the regiment since the casualt)' to 
Col. Liscum in the attack on San Juan Ridge. The Major drew 
up his regiment in Ime, and the surgeon explained the needs ot 
the sufferers, at the same time clearl\- sc;tting forth the tlanger 
to the men who were not immunes ot attending yellow lever 
patients. Maj. ALarkley then said th.it any men who wished to 
volunteer to nurse in the yellow fever hosjjital could step for- 
ward. The whole regiment math; a step to the front. I here 
never was an act of nobler heroism. The charge upon San 
Juan pales before the magnificent devotion and bravery exhib- 
ited by that single pace in advance sho \n by tht,- gallant Twenty- 
fourth. Sixty men were selectetl from the volunteers to nurse, 



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and in a few clays forty-two of these brave fellows were taken 
seriously ill with the yellow fever or pernicious malaria. 

Once more the regiment was drawn up in line. Again 
Maj. Markley said that nurses were needed, and that any man 
who wished to do so could volunteer. It must be remembered 
that these soldiers were sent to Siboney simply to act as senti- 
nels to protect the approach to the hospital, and to prevent 
those who had been exposed to the infection from departing 
without proper permission. It was a sanitary precaution against 
the dissemination of the pestilence. The men were under no 
obligation to serve as nurses or to do anything other than the 
duty to which they had been assigned. Moreover, after the 
object lesson which they had received, in the last few days, of 
the perils they would be exposed to in entering the precincts of 
the pestilence, one would think that the bravest might well have 
been excused for refusal to walk into the jaws of death. Yet, 
when this second request for volunteers v/as made to replace 
those who had fallen in their dangerous service, once more the 
entire line of blue coats and black faces moved forward. Every 
man had x'olunteered ! 

'I he records of heroism in the Spanish-American War, or, 
for that matter, in any other war, present no incident more 
worthy of commemoration upon the page of history, by poet's 
song and by the hands of sculptor and of painter than this 
act of the gallant blacks of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of 
United States Infantr)-. Perhaps it might not be unmeet to 
trace some connection between this humane; and courageous deed 
and the song which the soldiers sang that night as they marched 
through the waters of the fording of the Sari Juan at Bloody Bend. 

()t the three hundred and twenty men who entered upon 
guard dut\' at the Sil)()ne\- Hospital and who remained for 



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iovty tla)'s at llu-ir sialioii, onK l\\cm\ tour escaju-d williout 
serious illness, and ot lliis haiidtul not a tew succumhctl to k-xers 
on the voyage home and alter their arrival at Montauk.-- 

As to the poi)ular son^s. one must admit that the rrpcrioire 
of the soldiers was not a larije or brilliant one. thouL^h f\<r\' 
now and then one came across a regimental chorus or choir ol 
a few musicdovino- spirits al)le to lead th<ir comratU-s in many 
of the popular song's of our time. In such cases one was \cr\- 
certain to hear some of Foster's melodies, j^articularly ' W ay 
down upon the- Swanee j\iver," and " 1 In- < Md Kentucky 
Home;" "Annie Laurie," and "Nome, Sweet Home,' ot 
which, however, the men generally seeme-d to know only the 
tune and the chorus. In Santiago the most jjopular song was 
"A Hot Time." Its popularits' began in tlu^ trenches, when 
the men daily gazed Santiagoward, l')nging to be let loose 
upon its defences, and dreaming of the time when they should 
enter as victors the streets of the city before which they wt-re 
encamped. They knew well, Irom hard e\j)erience, that th(' 
hour of assault would be "a hot time," but ihcy co\fted its 
coming. During ni)- entire sta\- in Santiago I heard this tune 
sung at almost all hours of the day and evening. Wdiole com- 
panies of soldiers would march down the streets, keeping tinu- 
to the singing of " d'here'll be a 1 lot Time in the < )Id Town ! " 
'Flu; Cuban street lads took up the strain and ai! ipted it to 
their own words, whi(h, one regrets to r<'cord, embraced the 
only bits of English which the l)o\s had learned — a few Ameri- 
can oaths. I found that not a few of the natives really believed 
that this tune was the Amc-rican aiuhtiu. an<l had contused it 
in their minds with the "Star Spangled Uanner." ( )ne can 
hardlv wonder at the mistake, consitleri.g the tacts. 

^Bonsai — ** The Fight for Santiago/* p 434. 



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As to the "Star Spangled Banner," it was rarely sung- in 
the camps. It is not a very singable tune. Besides, tew ot 
our officers and men know the words, which is certainh' not to 
the credit of the modern American school teacher. I have 
been surprised and mortified on certain occasions to find the 
ignorance, aniong officers and the most cultivaied citizens, of 
anything but the chorus of this, our national song. I recall 
one occasion on shipboard when, of a large company, the 
writer was the only person who could sing consecutively two 
verses of the song. ( )n another occasion, while visiting the 
San Carlos Club in Santiago, a private soldier happened to be 
at the piano playing, and he played remarkably well. " The 
Star Spangled Banner" was called for, and although a number 
of officers w^ere present, the writer again was the only person 
who could lead off with the w^ords. The others, however, 
including a large number of Cubans who had gathered around 
the instrument, made up for the deficiency when they came to 
the chorus, which was sung with a heartiness that made the 
very plaza outside ring again. 

But though the soldiers could not sing the words ot the 
".Star .Spangled Banner," it was an inspiring sight to see them 
honor the national tune and salute the colors, especially at 
"retreat." Then the men would spring from their bunks, and 
tents, and burrows in the trenches, and, standing silently on the 
entrenched hills, with heads uncovered and campaign hats held 
against their breasts, do homage to " Old Clory " and the Great 
1 lome Land beyontl the sea whose majesty it symbolized. It is 
a vision that will not die — those heroes of Guasimas, Caney and 
San Juan standing bareheaded, as in worshij), with faces toward 
the West where the setting sunlight bathed the towers and 
red-tiled roofs of .SantiaL-o, and the sw(;iling summits ot tlie 



IRclict XUovh Binonci ^^olMcVi? -'^i*: 

Sierra del Cobre beyond; and tar, lar, beyond that still, the 
dear Native Land and tlic loxed faces of Sweet Home. 
Ach. (}od ! that so nian\- sliould see them nevermore ! 

Later on came in the son^;- •'Comrades. COinradcs.'' 
Certainly, nothiiiL;- could be more ;ii)])r()j>i-iatc for an arm\' 
piece. Both words and melody carry a sentiment that rin<;s up 
the strongest and tenderest feelinos in a soldier's breast. The 
National Relief Commission, whose headquarters were in Phila- 
delphia, began an admirable work for our soldiers b\- jirinting 
what was called "a Knapsack Library." ( )f the two books 
issued one was a "Spanish Phrase Book." of which many 
thousands were distributed. The other was a "Song P)Ook," 
w^hich contained a few ol the most i)oi)ular h\'mnsot the Church 
cathfjlic, together with national and popular songs. It was a 
great boon to the bo)s. Anything that gets th(! soldiers to 
singing, and encourages them in the cMijoyment of that which 
links them to home life with its higher and Iiolier associations, 
not only aids to maintain moral discipline, but contributes 
largely to a form of enjoyment which is ([uite certain to win th(^ 
men from lower phases of life. 

The fondness cf colored soldiers for singing ami their apti- 
tude therein has been referred to. 1 had several da\s' experi- 
ence thereof on the L. S. .S. )\if/c\ The last night al)oard was 
especially songful. A ship one-tenth of a mile long has some 
disadvantages. The weather-beaten .Santiago i)ilot who 
boarded us as we inched up to the mouth of the harbor, slowly 
feeling our way with the log. answered Capt. \\ ise's (piestion 
in true \'ankee style, witli another (piestion, " 1 low many teet.-'" 
The captain answered. " Lgh " (a shrug and expressive gesture 
with the hands). " no possibe ! the /vV/.v? Mercedes^' — another 
gesture, which indicated that the stcM'n of the )'ii/r would cer- 



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tainly bump against the wreck of that ill-fated ship lying- there 
Avithin the harbor's mouth. That settled the matter. We must 
send in for a transport to lighter us into " the bottle." 

We anchored off the Morro awaiting the dawn to enter 
Santiago harbor. The colored soldiers of the Eighth Illinois 
Infantry, who were lying and sitting on the decks, had tuned up 
all their musical faculties, and the air resounded with their 
songs. lust outside the captain's beautiful office, which, by 
courtesy, I was permitted to use. Company K was singing an 
old National Guard song to the tune of "Baby Mine," the 
chorus being " Illinois ! Illinois ! " One man led in a rich tenor 
voice, and the whole company, perched on the iron rail of the 
inner guards, or seated and lying on the deck, chimed in with 
the refrain in full harmony. It sounded very sweet, indeed, in 
the night air. The dark, long waves answered back the hearty 
notes. Yonder, where the dim lights twittered on the crest ot the 
old Morro hill, and among the tents of the American soldiers 
who guarded the battery on the ridge of Socapa, the melody 
must have been heard and, softened by the distance, seemed 
like a breath of "sweet home" wafted from the home land. 

The l;)ugle sounded reveille amidshii)S. Again the call 
came from th(? bow, and seemed far away. A third time, and 
l)ugle notes came from aft, \-ery faint, so that they seemed 
blown from the heights of the castle. The lads on the deck 
answered reveille with "My Old Kentucky Home" and 
" Massa's in the Cold, Cold (iround." 

Then the bugk; sounded, "Taps! Lights out!" The 
songs ceased ; the chatter of a thousand voices graduall)' died 
into silence. All was hushed at last except the throbbing ot 
the d\-namo (Migine, and abo\e the broad bank ot clouds in the 
southern horizon peeped the Southern Cross, and Jupiter and 



IRclicf Tiaovl; Bniouii 5olMci*i> :-'i> 

the Eveninor Star, in close C()ni])aiii()nshii), cast a l)elt ol li.L;ht 
across the waves and bridged the- )'ii/(- to ihr liori/on. 

I^iirinL; du; first weeks of the war the Medical 1 Icpartincnt 
discouraged the employment of women nurses in military hos- 

Women pitals. But later on th(; authorities experienced a 
Nurses for chano^c; of policy, much to th(- advanta^^e of the 

Soldiers soldiers. As mii^ht ha\e been e.\])ected, some nj 
the numcM'ous women nurses who were emplosed prox cd lo be; 
failures, and some were decidedh' oljjcctionable. lUit jud^iuL^'^ 
from my own observation and from direct in formation, most ol 
them w-ere faithful, competent and efficient. Ihe)' were: not 
all younq- and beautiful, nor did they all bear the names of dis- 
tinguished families. Some were well acKanced in years: some 
w^ere plain work-a-day folk, and some hatl black skins. IWit 
they faced the yellow fever and other contagious diseases with 
unflinching- courage. They bore the hardships and the otien 
shocking and revolting service of hospital dut\- under the most 
trying circumstances, and the\' carried a world ol comloit into 
the hospital tents where our sick lads lay. An .itmosphere ot 
home and home ways came in with the women nurses : anil 
whatever the Medical Department ma\- be pleased to think or 
say, "the boys " voted them a success. lAen in the tield hos- 
pital, where they were compelled to live in tents among the 
soldiers, the difficidties did not prove insurmountable or v\v\\ 
formidable. They took their places there as a matter of course, 
just as in the family circle or in a well-regulated city hospital, 
and affairs adjusted themselves naturally and easily to the tactor 
of woman's presence. I have yet to learn ot a single case 
where a woman nurse was treated with disrespect or was sub- 
jected in ar.y degree to discourtesy iv^ m soldiers. 

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Commision I referred to this tact, and ventured the recommen- 
dation that the Medical Department of the army should sup- 
plement the hosjjital corps with a reserve corps of women 
nurses, who should be called into service at least during the 
present exigency. Indeed, I expressed the belief that they 
might wMth great advantage become a permanent part of the 
medical service, to be called to active duty when recjuired. 
Based upon my experience and observation, both in the Civil 
War and in the Spanish- American War, I do not hesitate to say 
that women nurses, under suitable conditions, may be intro- 
duced with the highest ad\antao-e. and without undue discom- 
fort and inconvenience either to themselves or to the soldiers, 
even into the general and divisional hospitals established back 
of the battle lines, during actual hostilities. With suitable 
dress and suitable equipments, trained female hospital nurses 
might thus bring their skill and experience and their womanly 
facilities for such work to the comfort and healing of the 
wounded. Had there been less "lack of woman's nursing" 
on the fields around Santiago de Cuba there would certainly 
have been a far greater "dearth of woman's tears" in the 
country at large where mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts 
mourn the untimely death of the soldiers whom they loved. 

The very presence of a woman nurse in a soldier's hospital 
is an inspiration to the sick. A woman's face and voice carry a 
glint of home. She's a guarantee of care and devotion which 
men well understand will rarely l)e given by their own sex. 
There are few men who make good nurses. In a rough and 
kind way they help their comrades, but when it comes to steady 
work and the bestowment of the delicate attentions which the 
sick recjuire, the men who do their (Uity with loxing persistency, 
witli skill and at the same time; tendcM'ncss, are rare indeed. 



IRclict lUoil; ilmoiuj 5ol^lcl•i> 4(ii 

Some such I have met, incomparable men. the noblest six-cimcns 
of manhocxl. But the majority of those who acted as hospital 
nurses, at least in our camps in the States, were clums)-, rude, 
unthoug-htful, and at times deliberately ne-li-ciu of th(»sc com 
mitted to their care. 

Even if such were not the fact, there is something- to be 
considered in the hereditary sentiment that the best nurse is a 
woman nurse. The men have always been used to the touch 
ot a woman's hand in their times of sickness at home, and even 
a lono tour of duty in the reqular service of the army does not 
obliterate the feelino- that the best hand for the sick bed is that 
ot woman. 1 here is somethiiiL^- in woman's touch that men 
cannot impart, an in\isil)Ie and impalpable somcthin- that those 
of us who have been sick at home and when awa\- from home 
can well understand, though we may not well describe it. 

Moreover, men become hardened b\- the tact that they are 
in similar conditions with their wounded and sick comrades. I 
can testily from my own e.xperience that this does unconsciously 
influence one's atdtude towards suffering comrades. The soldier 
reasons, "This man is going through what we all calculated 
upon when we enlisted. We took our chances, and we are still 
taking our chances. In that they are one with us and we are 
one with them." This feeling of being joint jiarticipants in a 
common peril and suffering, or liability to suffer, certainly does 
throw a different atmosphere around the hos])ital cot trom that 
which would prevail under other conditions. This sentiment 
women are not liable to feel. They keep their symi)ath\- fresh. 
The very difference between themselves and the men whom 
they serve, and the fact that they are not liable to such condi- 
tions, keep open the fountain of tende-ness. and make the 
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P\irther, the habit of housekeeping; tidiness, which nearly 
all women nurses maintain, is rare with men. The best trained 
Red Cross men are apt to keep things in a muss and litter. 
They are not tidy, not to say dainty, in their ways of adminis- 
tering- to the sick. They have to be watched continually to 
assure that the implements and utensils required for hospital 
service are in wholesome condition. It is w-ell-nigh impossible 
for men to overcome the hereditary male dislike (at least 
among Americans) of w^ashing, scouring, scrubbing, sw^eeping 
and general housekeeping " redding up." But women go to 
such service wath a willingness, or at least content that comes 
from natural descent, from life-long habit, and from that readi- 
ness which results from mental acceptance of such duties as a 
part of her destiny. 

Another point in favor of a woman nurse, and one of prime 
importance, is her ability to prepare delicacies tor the sick. In 
many fevers, and in fact in most cases of sickness, as much 
depends upon the diet as upon the medicine. No one will 
dispute the saying that many of our men died in the hospital 
from lack of nutrition. They could not take the food served 
to them b}' the hospital cooks. Women know^ how to prepare 
even the rudest material in such a way as to be both appetizing 
and nutritious. The trained nurse has, of course, been 
instructed in the diet kitchen. But any w^oman brought up in a 
well reo-ulated h(jme understands the art of ministerina; to a 
delicate appetite. 

There is no reform in the Medical Department of our 
army which should more earnestly engage the attention of those 
in authority than that which relates to the proper preparation 
of food, and to its proper administration as well. It was hard 
enough for our soltliers while in good health to subsist upon 



IRclicf lUorh Biuoiio Sol^lCl•i^ 40:^ 

the messes prepared 1)\' unskilled coinpaiu' cooks, aiul (.louhtless 
the genesis of much camp sickness was the innutritions output 
of the cam[) kitclien. lUit when ch-hiliiated li\- illness, it is no 
wonder that they were nauseated b\' the wretchetl stuti presentetl 
to them by hospital helpers, especially when it was L^ivt-n in 
unclean vessels, and all the surroundinn;- conditions wen- dis 
g'ustiuL;" even to a sound or^ani/ation. 1 will not ottrntl the 
reader by detailing- my observations ol some ot the methods 
that unhappily prevailed in some of our hospitals. The past 
cannot be recalled, but the nation will be charL;-eal)le with blood 
guiltiness it our authorities tlo not see to it that such a state of 
things is made impossible in the luture. 

( )f course, men can be trained to something like home 
tidiness. This is proved by the way in which sailors succeed in 
acquiring a sort of domestic habit analogous to that of the 
wonian housekeeper. The\' learn to cook and to be cleanly in 
their persons, and to keep everything in their ocean house 
" spick and span." On war vessels sailors become as titly as 
an emmet, and everything about them is ke])t trig and trim. 
But there is a great ditlerence in the en\ironmi-nt ot the sailor 
antl that of the ordinary soldier. .\ ship is a sort of house. It 
is separate from the surrounding worKl. It is itself a miniature 
world. The law of necessity compels the growth aiul mainte- 
nance of habits needful to keep such an organization in perfect 
order. The temptations to untidiness that beset the soldier on 
land do not exist. Many of the conditions which contribute to 
uncleanliness and disorder are absent. No problem of tlisjx^s- 
ine of earbas^e and effete matter disturbs the seaman, tor there 
always is the great ocean into which all sewage may be 
safely and easily cast. Vhv discipliiK,' of na\al manners, drawn 
from the absolute necessity of the case and tleveloj)ed through 



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ages of experience, is a great power in creating and maintain- 
ing a habit of housekeeping cleanhness. 

None of these favorino- conditions obtains with soldiers. 
Everythino" is so wholly different. th(^ circumstances are so 




Fic. 172 
A volunlcei- iiiirsc of tin' Xaiilical HospiLil, Santiago. 



IRclict IGorh Ilmouo 5ol^lCl;> 4<r. 

unlrienclK-, the temptations so L;iX'at ; the ol)Staclcs to cleanli- 
ness so much more ditViciilt to be overcome, the inducement 
thereto so much weaker, that soldiers cannot be expectetl to 
attain the immaculate housekeeijin^- ways ot the trainee.! inan- 
of-\varsman. So that, notwithstanding- the possil)ility of train- 
ing men to tht- home-making and housekeeping habit so natural 
to woman, the probabilit\- in the case of soldiers, during an 
ordinary campaign, is so slight that the demand tor woman's 
help is fully justified in the care of hospitals. 

Apropos of woman nurses, a i)retty story was told me by 
Lieut. Wise, of the Ninth I'nitetl States Inlantry. A corporal 
of his company lay sick at the Hoating Club Mouse, which 
stands on the waterside near the cpiays, and hatl l)een converteil 
into a hospital. While the officer was talking with his soldier 
a woman nurse came by and bathed the sick man's face and 
hands and fed him milk. " Do you know who that is. Corporal !*" 
asked the Lieutenant, when the nurse had gone. 

"No, I don't," was the answer : "but she's a [)erfect lady, 
she is ! She's been awful good to us, and if ever 1 get a chance 
I'll show her how we appreciate it." 

"That's Miss Wheeler — General Wheeler's daughter." 

" What ^ Our General Wheeler !" exclaimed the Corjioral. 
fairly startled into a sitting postiu'e. 

•• \'es ; our General — ' Fighting Joe ' Wheeler. ' 

•Well, well '" the soldier exclaimed, dropping back upon 
his couch. "She's a brave and noble lady I And she's good 
blood, sir. That's a fine family, them Wheelers. God bless 
the brave litde nurse ! " 

Citizens are usually disposed to reganl the men in the 
fio-hting columns as the only heroes of the battleheld. lUit 
there are others ecpially entitled to the honor, who in tin; 



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interests of hunianit\', take risks which are often as great, and 
sometimes greater than those assumed by their comrades who 
Heroic .^'^^ ^^ ^^"'^ firing Hne. The non-combatants of the 
Hospital army, the heroes of the hospital corps and of the 
Workers medical staff gave many proofs of their valor, and 
displayed a heroism of the highest type. In the arm\-, at least, 
this fact is fully recognized, and it is pleasant to read in the 
general reports commendation of the distinguished courage and 
service of such surgeons as ist Lieut. T. |, Kirkpatrick, of the 
Twenty-fourth Infantry, of Major \V. B. Banister, of the Second 
Infantr)', of ist Lieut. |. R. Church, the gallant Surgeon of the 
Rough Riders, and of many others who like them exposed 
themselxes to the bullets of the battlefield. Amonor those killed 
at San Juan was Assistant Surgeon H. \V. Danforth, of the 
Nintli Caxalry, who lies buried among the unknown dead in the 
Cemetery of the First Division Hospital. Among the wounded 
of the First Lhiited States Cavalry was Major Surgeon 
LaMotte. 

It perha})s recjuires even a higher qualitx' ot courage to go 
unarmed into the storm of battle, to care for the wounded, than 
to push forward to the front animated by the passion ot 
combat, and by the consciousness of being able to return shot 
tor shot, which does so much to nerve a man to face danger. 
No less courageous spirit was required by those surgeons, who 
like Major Le Garde and his able and fearless aids at Siboney, 
deliberately faced yellow fever day after day and week after 
week, living in the tabooed camps, and laboring to preserve 
the lives of others. 

One may include in this category, as among the niilitary 
heroes, those chaplains who faithfully performed their duties in 
the fields and hospitals of Santiago. Many of them I heard 



IRclict IGovl^ Brno nil GolMcvt? 407 

spoken of in hi-h terms of praise I do not ailii(l<- to the case 
or two of chaplains popularly alleged to have joined the hring 
line and united with the soldiers in the assault ui)on th(.- enemy. 
Such men, if there were such (which 1 doul)t), might he tairly 
classed with the officer or the sohher in the ranks who. when 
l)idden to move forward and attack the enemy, should throw 
aside sword or musket under th(; pretense of going to the rear 
to pray with the dying and to aid in burying the tlead. '1 he 
army has no need of " fighting chaplains." in that sense. '1 he 
articles of war forbid him and other non-combatants to wear 
weapons of destruction. "The shoemaker to his last" is a 
wise old proverb. So let the chaplain to his prayers, and to the 
humane duty of comforting and alleviating the suttering ' I b- 
has no part nor lot in tlu; work of killing men. The Uible .uid 
Prayer Book, not sword and musket, are the weapons ol his 
warfare, and with these, when rightly used, he can disi)lay as 
fine courage, and has before him as wide a held ol valiant 
service and self-tlenial as the bravest soKlier who moves into 
the battle line. The manner in which some ot our chaplains 
exposed themselves along with surgeons to the enemy s hre. 
and to the risks of yellow fever and otht-r contagious diseases, 
in the discharge of their duties, and that in the simplest ami 
most direct nianner. widiout e\-en seeming to be conscious that 
they were doing an\thing out of the common, was a subject ot 
frequent comment and commendation in the bitth Army Corps. 
I am not aware that any chaplains ha\c been decorated with 
'Teaves." or "eagles." or "stars." for such gallant and helittul 
services, luit dial they are (MjualK entitled to such a distinction 
I have no doubt at all. It seems a little curious that apparently 
no one. from the President down, has even thought of " Jjn)- 
motincr "' a chaplain " for gallant ami meritorious service. 



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Perhaps this is an unconscious recognition of the truth that his 
office admits no elevation, because it already is at the pinnacle. 
All surgeons and hospital workers with whom I have con- 
versed have called attention to the remarkably small proportion 

of amputations reciuired amonor those wounded at 
Gunshot 111 r /-- 1 r- T -T-i • • 1 

Wo nd ^ battles ot Laney and ban Juan. 1 his is due to 

the character ot the Mauser bullet, which is so 
small and is driven with such velocity that it makes a clean 
wound ot narrow dimensions, rarely shattering bones or tearing 
the riesh and arteries, as do the larger bullets fired from a 
weapon of heavier calibre. The army surgeons and hospital 
workers invariably refer to this fact. Dr. Lesser, Chief Sur- 
geon of the Red Cross Society who was on the field at Siboney 
after the San Juan fight, and did excellent service in the hos- 
pital, made special mention of the commendable pains taken by 
the surgical staff at that place to save limbs when at all possible. 
There was no such rnde and careless hacking of limbs as has 
been reported, and sometimes too truly, after the battles of our 
Civil War. But the surgeons would spend an hour for resection 
of the part in order to prevent amputation. Out of the total 
number of one thousand four hundred and fifteen wounded who 
were treated in the Siboney Hospital after the battle of San Juan 
there were Ijut three amputations of the; thioh, two of the lee. 
and one of the forearm observed by Dr. Lesser.^^' This ratio 
probably fairly represents the general results of the campaign. 
The death rate was also unusually small in proportion to 
tlic number of wounds, only those dying who were wounded in 
vital jjarts, and even many of the wounds thus made, which under 
other circumstance would have involved certain death, were 
successfully treated. Considering the trying, one might almost 

* "The Red Cros>-," hy Clara Barton, p. 590. 



IRclict UlorU Hniouo 5ol^lCl•i? »"" 

sa)- the h(M-ril)K: climatic conditions surroinidin- the wounded, 
the lack of the commonest comforts, ami in many cases the 
long delay in securing medical treatment, the recovery ol so 
large a proportion of our wounded is astonishing. The invin- 
cil)le s[)irit of our heroes, the fact that they were physically the 
(lower of America's young manhood, and the tidelity and skill 
of the surgeons must be uniu;d with the character ol the 
Matiser gunshot wound to account for such favorable results. 
The humane character of such weapons of destruction is 
manifest from the simple statement of these facts. The Mauser 
l)ulU;t places the man out of action for the time, and thus 
removes him from tin? sphere of immediate and near activity. 
He is not permanently disabled, it is true. The bullet does not 
so mangle the Hesh and fracture the bones as to make the 
unfortunate victim an invalid for life. lUit what is gained to the 
adversary by such disability beyond the mere satisfaction 
of inflicting suffering upon an enem\- ^ As wars are now 
conducted, the issue between the contentling parties is settletl 
in a short time. A campaign of a few months or e\en ol a 
few weeks determines results. This has been the case in all 
modern wars, and it must be increasingly true in wars ot the 
future, under ordinary conditions. The rule i.s — a brief cam- 
paign, and then a settlement. Is it not obvious that the missiltfs 
which put the fighting man out of action tor a comparatively 
short period satisfy all the recpiirements of modern civil war- 
fare? Until the conscience and common sense ot men shall 
decree the cessation of war, and the settlement of all national 
disputes by ethnic courts of arbitration or other peacetul methods 
which reason antl religion may suggest, let rulers and jx-ople 
aoree at least to minimize the power of destructive weajjons to 
inflict suffering and to j)romote injury. 



410 /IDarttal Graven 

In looking back upon the events and experiences recorded 

in these pages, the author sees everywhere emerging as the 

dominant organizers and agents of victory, the officers and 

men of the regular army and na\y ot the 

The Regular ^^-^^^ States, "jhev are the real heroes of 

Army and Navy . . „ ' . i /- i t .• 

the campaign m Santiago cle Cuba. Justice 

requires the acknowledgment of this ; and none is more 
ready to join in giving the honor to whom honor is due. 
than the volunteer soldier who was permitted to share with them 
the labors, sufferings, perils and honors of the campaign, or 
(like the writer) to take some part in relieving the wounds of 
war. There is particular need, at this time, that the people 
should know and remember the truth. 

History repeats itself The old cry. and in hardly a new 
form, that assailed Washington and the officers of the Revolu- 
tion has been raised in the Congress of the United States and 
in the press — Militarism ! I'here is danger, it is alleged ; yes, 
there is a conspiracy to force upon the republic a military and 
naval organization that shall dominate the States and Congress, 
and at last lay the liberties of the nation beneath the iron arm 
of military dictators ! Of whom is this alleged ? Wdio are to 
be the active aeeressors or the passive ao-ents in this unnatural 
revolution? None other than the officers and men of our 
regular army and navy. 

Let us not be moved by such hysterical clamor. The 
writer has had a large acquaintance with that class of men 
during the course of his life and service in two wars, and a 
service of more than fifteen years in the National Guard of 
Pennsylvania. 1 le has been privileged to know, more or less inti- 
mately, and come into personal relations with nearly all the most 
eminent officers of the army in the war against the rebellion and 



TRclict lUorh Binouii 5ol^lCl•i^ 411 

ill the Spanish-American war. and many <>t the officers ol the 
navy. He affirms that the hind liohls, hvin^; or ch-ad, no more 
lo\al and hljertydovini^- men than they. He goes furtlier and 
declares that they stand forth pre-eminent amon^- all other 
classes in their unswervinL^- attachment to their conntry, to the 
Constitution, to the People, to Freedom and to the .Nation's 
Flao". The\' are the last [)ersons who could he hrihed or lorced 
into military des])Otism. Their education from xouth uj), all 
the intluences that environ men in that formatixe periotl and 
CTo to fi.x character, have imbued them with an almost sacred 
regard for their countr)', its laws, its honor and its integrit\-. 
The Constitution of the Inited States is a te.\t-book in the 
naval and military academies, whicli their graduates must 
know. They are sworn to support the Constitution and the 
lawful government of the United States. They must sahit<- 
their magistrates ami rulers with all the honors ol war on ever\- 
fitting occasion. To speak evil of dignitaries is a crime. Con- 
duct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman merits dismission 
from the service. Loyalty is the highest point of honor, and 
is the first element in virtue. Implicit ol)edience and tidelity to 
duty are the ine.xorable laws of conduct, under all conditions, 
even unto death. All the precedents of the service, and all 
the hio-hest examples froni Washington to the present day, 
which army and navy officers are taught to emulate, confirm 
them in unswerving devotion to their country's liberty and 
welfare. If human reason can rightly estimate the force ol 
education in forming character, surely it is a safe conclusion 
that the last man on the roll of American citizenship who should 
be suspected of designs against our country's mtegrity. are 
the officers of the army and navy, wh<. have thus been disci- 
plined in the rigid school of loyalt\, reverence, love for all that 



412 /iDartial Graves 

the country holds dear. The customs of school, of post, of 
camp, of battlefield set before them reverence for their rulers, 
submission to law and loyalty to the tiag. 

Where can one see such honors shown to the emblem of 
our nationality as in the army and navy ? Every day, and often 
every hour of the day, the flag is saluted, or rather the majesty 
of the nation saluted through its flag. I have seen crowds of 
citizens stand stolidly during the service of a flag-raising, with 
faces turned upward as the beloved colors were unrolled against 
the sky, and scarcely a hat removed ! If perchance a hat were 
doffed, the act located an old soldier or sailor, or some one who 
had felt the molding influence issuing from army and navy. I 
have seen the tattered battle llags of the Civil W^ar borne 
through our streets ; have marched with them through lines of 
citizens, miles of American men and women, and have scarcely 
seen a hand raised to salute the colors. Such neglect would be 
incredible, would be impossible in the army and navy. Soldiers 
are trained to reverence and to show reverence for their nation 
and its sovereignty as symbolized in its flag. 

That reverence is carried to the point of a devotion unto 
death. What touching illustrations one might cite of the cheer- 
fulness with which our soldiers died for their country. See 
them fighting and falling in the matted and prickly jungles of 
Las Guasimas, moving with steady progress and unflinching- 
hearts against a rain of death from a hidden foe. There in the 
forefront of the fight falls the heroic commander of L Trooj) of 
the Rough Riders, Captain Allyn Capron, Jr. "Take this 
[farting message to my wife, and this to my father," he said, 
and then in a cheerful voice, as though bidding him good night, 
he said " Good-bye," and was borne away d\ing. They buried 
him at Siboney by the Sea, and his father, the commandant of 



IReliet xaovU Bniouii Sol^icii^ 4i:i 

the batter)- which fired the opeiiinL;' i^iin ai^aiiist C"aiiey on the 
memorable ist of luK, i S9S, went on with his ihity. holdin^^ 
his L;rief in reserve, and soon lollowc^d his son. a \ictim ol 
Cuban fever, in the Ion*;- procession of tlie patriotic dead. 

" Le/ nic 00 to my duty ! " was the dyini^- word of .Strr^eant 
Major Good, as he th'opped at his post on INhirincs" liiii by 
Guantanamo Hay. A noble utterance, thai Noiced the spirit ot 
the gallant little Marine Corps that waited the first battle upon 
Cuban soil. And who that knows the facts can doubt that it 
voiced also the spirit of evc-ry soldier and sailor under the flag ? 

See the men of L;all;int Lawton's command drawiuL;' closer 
and closer that fatal firin- line around Caney ! They move 
forward as steadily as the sun in his course. There the\ lie in 
lono- winrows, the solemn harvestins^' of death, u])on th(^se 
beautiful hills. There are their -raves, scattered alon- tin- 
whole line of circunnallalion, dotting- the abandoned i)lanla- 
tions where the heroes sleep beneath the royal jtalms and in 
the groves of cocoanut and mango. 

See the blue line sweeping over the rounded height ol 
Kettle Hill, black cavalrymen, and white. Rough Riders antl 
Regulars, intermingled in the fierce j^assion ot contlict. \ on 
der on the left is Kent's Infantry Division. Out of the deadly 
jungle and the Sunken Road they dash through the waters ol 
Bloody Bend, dyed red from their wounds, .md o\er the plain 
of San juan whose feathered grasses beat breast-high against 
them, and become the winding sheet of many a gallant lorm. 
See them climb the steep height of -San juan Ridge, ribbeil with 
the grey lines of Spanish entrenchments and lurid with th<- tlash 
of Mauser rifles. On they move into the rain of death — then- 
country bids it ! They halt not. they swerve not, until the tlag 
of the Union floats from the gallantly defended blockhouses on 



414 fmartial Graves 

the crest of the ridge, and the bra\e foes, that are not sleepuig 
in death, are tleeing down the valley to yonder crests of ?yladre 
Vieja or the further heights of Santiago. 

Who are these heroes ? With the exception of one regi- 
ment and a fragment of volunteers they are the men ot the 
regular army, infantry and cavalry. Who have led these 
heroes ? Officers of the regular army ! They taught those 
soldiers the mystery of discipline, the mastery of themseh-es 
and of their weapons. They taught them how to fight. They 
showed them how to die. Can we believe that these men and 
men like these are dangerous elements in the Republic ? 

Xor is this all. Fighting is not the hardest, is not the most 
trying duty of a soldier. Dying on the battlefield is not the 
supreme test of one's devotion to his country. The writer has 
been in every principal camp of the army in this country, and 
in every camp in the Province of Santiago de Cuba, He saw 
the army of Santiago, the Fifth Army Corps, a week after the 
final surrender. He visited thousands of men in the hospitals 
between that period and his final departure from Cuba. He 
saw the heroes of that campaign suffer with yellow lever, with 
typhoid fever, with dysentery and diarrhrea and all the ills that 
seem to have concentrated upon that unfortunate spot during 
the summer of 1898. It was wonderful to view the patience 
with which the soldiers suffered ; unmurmuring, with no com- 
plaints, even when it was manifest that " some one had blun- 
dered " — fearfully blundered, and that precious lives were pay- 
ing the penalty of blundering. Only twice did he hear any- 
thing like a murmur. One bright youth — he was little more 
than a boy — looked up from his cot where he was wasting away 
nigh unto death, and said, "Oh, Chaplain, I did not enlist for 
this — to die with typhoid fever!" Another, a mature man. 



IRclict lUovl; Bmoiiii iT^MMciL^ -^i"> 

spoke in almost identical words, •• 1 would not iniiul it. Lhap- 
lain, were it a battle wound. iUit it is hard to diet out here with 
typhoid iever." Vet they dieil — ami without a i)laint. 1 lu- 
heroism of the hospital forms a chapter of soldierly virtue and 
suffering; which has never been told, which never can be told. 

The glamour of the battle does not rest upon the hosjdtal. 
lUit since it is ine\itable ihal ihrt-e out of f )ur, or. at th<- least, 
two out of three of those who perish in our wars, must die in 
hospitals from sickness contracted in service, it is surely well 
for us to lay the chaplet of our honor ui)on the graves ot those 
who perish thus. Can we be persuaded that men who will 
patiently, unseltishh', uncomplainingly, even cheertulK', sutlc-r 
the ills of disease, the inconveiiiences and privations ot inade- 
quate nursing, of scant medicines, of coarse, unsuitable and 
unsavory food; who dare face death in a hospital tor their 
country's sake and for the honor of the llag they love, are the 
material out of which conspirators ami traitors can torni a 
military despotism ^ Xo. We can trust the heroes of Manila 
and Santiago, of Porto Rico, of Las Guasimas. Cancy, San 
juan and Quanta namo. The men who have always gone forth 
in the perils of warfare to bring their country into some larger 
Canaan, will not be the men to drive th<' nation back into the 
wilderness of despotism. 

"The Army and Navy forever' 
Three cheers for the Red. White and lUue 1" 
God save the Republic ! God save the President ! 



IHK i"M'. 



Index of the Fallen 



LIST* OF OFFICERS, ENLISTED MEN AND i OTHER PERSONS WHO 
WERE KILLED IN ACTION. OR DIED IN CUBA DURING THE 
WAR WITH SPAIN. 



Name 


Rank 


Company 


Regijiient 


Date of Death 


P«8e; 


Abbott, Nathan J. 


Private 


i; 


7 L'. S. Inl. 


An-. 


4 


269 


Abies, Frank 


Private 


li 


7 r. S. Int". 


Aug. 


27 


2>9 


Adams, James 


Teamster 






Oct. 


24 




Adams, William 


Private 


I'- 


20 L. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


T) 


'57 


Adams, William K. 


Private 


ll 


S oliio V. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 




Alden, Frank E. 


Q. M. Se. 


gt. L 


71 X. V. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


2S0 


Alexander, Cornelius 


Private 


1 


9 L. S. \ . Inf. 


Oct. 


24 




Alexander, Dennis 


Private 


F 


9 U. S. V Inf. 


Nov. 


7 




Alexander, dreenville 


Private 


N 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


20 




Alexander, Joseph C. 


Private 


I 


5 r. S. Inf. 


Nov. 


3 




Allen, John C. 


2 Lieut. 


11 


9 U. S. \'. Inf. 


Nov. 


25 




Allen, Robert 


Private 


C 


16 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Ames, Marvin F. 


Corporal 


11 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


>j 




Amter, I. 


Sergeant 


F 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


1 


1S9 


Anderson, Anton C. 


Private 


E 


3 I". S. Inf. 


Aug. 


IS 


276 


Anderson, August 


Sergeant 


1" 


20 U. S Inf. 


Aug. 


20 


301 


Anderson, Henry 


Sergeant 


A 


I I'. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




Anderson, Karl J. 


Seaman 




L'. S. N. 


July 


27 


5S 


Anderson, Nels 


Artificer 


C 


4 L". S. Inf. 


July 


I 


199 


Anderson, Robert 


Private 


P. 


10 U. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


14 




Andress, Leon G. 


Musician 


A 


16 U. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




Anthony, William G. 


Civilian 






Oct. 


2 




Appleby, Frayer 


Private 


A 


24 L. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


2 


290 



* This list has been made as nearly correct as my opportunities would permit. 1 here arc, doubtlesf, 
errors therein and I know there are omissions therefrom which I sincerely reirct. Nevertheless, it presents, 
with substantial accuracy, a roll of the American Nation's Fallt i.igo de Cuba. 

t All dates herein are for the year 1898 alone. 

I The numbers in this column refer to those whose gra» » wne visited o. .jcntified. The vacancio 

indicate that the author has no definite knowledge of the burial pla' es of those so designated In the extremely 

difficult work of preparing this list, Gen. Ludington and other office.* of the (Quartermaster's Department gave 

most valuable aid. 

07 417 



41<S 



lln^c.i ot tbe jfallcu 



Arms, Nelson C. 
Armstrong, Robeit L. 
Arthur, James 
Ashbrook, Arthur A. 
Ashmore, Joseph P. 
Ashton. Budd 
Atkins, Harvey R. 
Atwood, Arthur L. 
Augustan, Charles J. 

Augustine, Jr., Joseph X. 

Augustus, David 
Austin, Walter 
Axel, Christensen (?) 
Ayer, Charles L. 
Ayo, Joseph J. 

Babbitt, George M. 
Babcock, Albino J. 
Bailey, Henry 
Baker, James W. 
Balcne, William N. 
Balt/.ner, Ernest W. 
Bampton, James W. 
Bangs, C. C. 
Banks, Frank 
Banks, James R. 
Barbour, I'rank E. 
Barker, Albert 
Barnes, Henry J. 
Barnes, Roy S. 
Barnett, Louis I. 
Barney, John S. 
Barr, Herbert F. 
Barrett, Gregory 
Barrett, Louis F. 
Barrett, Thomas J. 
Bartholomew, William 
Bassey, Arthur 
Bassett. Effie J. 
Baucher (see Boettcher) 
Bearse, Richard 1 1. 



Rank 


Con^pany 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


Page 


Artiticer 


C 


13 V. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


H 


8 Ohio V. Inf. 


Aug. 


17 


292 


Private 




H. C. U. S.A. 


July 


I 




Private 


A 


17 U. S. Inf. 


luly 


13 




Private 


1) 


12 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


267 


Private 


A 


24 U. S. Inf. 






303 


Private 


1 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


July 


25 




Piivate 


C 


5 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


28 


301 


Private 


G 


9 U. S. W Inf. 


Oct. 


27 












( 122. 2i;2, 


2 Lieut. 




24 U. S. Inf. 


July 


'l 


253 


Private 


L 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


20 




Private 


G 


lo U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


96 


Private 


C 


i6 U. S. Inf. (See 


Christiansen) 


130 


Corporal 


A 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


2 


175, 195 


Sergeant 


L 


8 L'. S. W Inf. 


Oct. 


9 




Private 


M 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


13 




I Lieut. 


L 


33 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


26 




Private 


C 


13 U. S. Inf. 


iuly 






Private 


L) 


8 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


15 




Private 


G 


7 r. S. Inf. 


July 




189 


Private 


G 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Sept. 




281 


Private 


G 


22 U. S. Inf. 


July 






Civilian 










298 


Sergeant 


A 


24 U. S. Inf. 


July 


3 




Private 


E 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


10 


92 


Private 


I 


2 Mass. V. Inl". 


Aug. 


15 




Private 


B 


5 C. S. Inf. 


Oct. 


2 




Private 


H 


9 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


II 




Private 


I 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


8 




I Lieut. 




9 V. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


18 


92 


Private 


A 


16 Pa. V. Inf. 
33 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


16 


2S5 


Captain 


A 


10 L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


7 


301 


Private 


E 


3 V. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


25 




Private 


1-: 


17 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 


269 


Private 


D 


2 U. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


I 


289 


Private 


D 


9 l'. S. \'. Inf. 


Sept. 


16 




Private 


G 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


6 


292 

288 



( ). M. Ser"t. 15 



2 Mass. \'. Inf. 



Aug. 



1In^Cl• ot the jrallcn 



4in 



Name 


Rank Company 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


Pace 


IJealtie, Archie 


I'rivatc 


( ' 


I 111. W Inf. 


Aug 


4 




Heaunien, John 


I <Jlass I'vt. 


Balloon 


1 »et. Signal Corp 


. July 


20 


2S9 


Hegley, Thomas 


IVivalc 


C 


21 L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


21 


2S0 


Belleville, Alfred N. 


Corporal 


I 


2 .Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 




Benchley, Edmund X. 


2 Lieut. 




6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Bender, Charles 


Private 


K 


I C. S .\ri. 


Aug. 


2S 


2S1 


Benegam, Edward 




I) 


3;> .Miih. \ . Inf. 






2S9 


Benjamin, Edward I.. 


Private 


1) 


T,i -Mich. \ . Inf. 


July 


2S 




Bennett, Edwin T. 


I'rivate 


B 


l6 L'. S. Inf. 


July 


25 


2()2 


Bennett, Samuel 


I'rivate 


A 


22 C. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Bennett, Thomns K. 


Private 


H 


34 Mich. \-. Inf. 


Aug. 


2 


261 


Benson, Abraham 


Private 


E 


24 L. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


2S6 


Berberich, Henry 


Private 


(; 


4 L. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


29 


268 


Berghahn, Albert C. 


Private 


<; 


3 U. S. Inf. 


Nov. 


24 




Bergh, Joseph M. 


Private 


I" 


6 l. S. Cav. 


July 


30 




Bergunde, Albert 


Private 


G 


i6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


26 


2(.2 


lierlin. Jack 


Private 


K 


1 L'. S. (av. 


June 


-M 


241 


Bernard, John J. 


2 Lieut. 




6 r. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


2L9 


Bernhardt, Charles 


Corporal 


E 


l6 I . S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Bearry, Joseph 


Private 


L 


34 .Mich. \ . inf. 


Aug. 


; 


■' 7 '' 


Berrett, Thos. J. 


Private 


E 


17 U.S. I. f. 








Bertram, Harry 


I'rivate 


F 


3 I . S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Bethel, William L. 


Private 


I! 


I6 I . S. Inf. 


Aug. 


30 




Beve, J. 


Private 


F 


25 L". S. Inf. 


July 


2 




liischotV, Harry T. 


Private 


!■ 


2 L'. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


3> 




Bissell, Richard H. 


I'rivate 


A 


24 U. S Inf. 


July 


•y 




Bjork, Emil 


Private 


K 


I L'. S. Cav. 


June 


24 


242 


Bjork, Gust. A. 


Private 


A 


12 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


S 


2 OS 


Black, Joseph I. 


Private 


K 


71 X. V. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


2 


256 


Blair, John W. 


Q. iNL Sergt, 




N. C. S. 12 L. S. 


Inf. July 


22 


2"i 


Blake, Charles H. 


Private 


G 


2 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


1 1 


259 


Blake, John B. 


Private 


V 


5 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


«y 


301 


Bland, Ebbie N. 


I'rivate 


A 


8 Ohio V. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


290 


Bliss, Edward 


Private 


G 


2 U. S. Inf. 


.Sept. 


II 




Blout, Hugh C. 


Sergt. Maj. 




3 I . S. v. Inf. 


Sept. 


27 




Bobb, John A. 


I Lieut, and Asst Sur 


g. 34 Mich. Inf. 


.Aug. 


•9 




Boettcher, Robert 


Private 


A 


I III V. Inf. 


.\ug. 


10 


2S5 


Boggs, Carter 


Private 


H 


24 C. S. Inf. 




2SS. 


304 


Boling, Benjamin F. 


Private 


1- 


21 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


96 


Bouiswail, Philip 


Private 


D 


9 U. S. \'. Inf. 


Sept. 


IS 




Boldi, C. 


Private 


C 


lO C. -. Inf. 






2(1 1 


Boldt, Charles 


I'rivate 


F 


lo I'. S. Inf. 


Au^. 


7 





420 



llii^c.1 ot tbe jf alien 



Name 
ISonneville, Joseph 
IJonry, Maurice M. 
Booker, Robert 
ISoostel, Harry 
Booth, Frank \V. 
Booth, John 
Boothby, Benjamin C. 
Bowen, Henry C. 
Boyd, William 
Boyer, Frank C. 
Boyle, James 
Boyle, Robert 
Brackmaii, jr., John II. 
Bradley, John 
Brady, ICdward J. 
Brady, Leo J. 
Bratton, Clarence C. 
Bray, George R. 

Breiner, Ilall'dan Rye 

Brent, William 

Briggs, George J, 

Brigham, William H. 

Briscoe, George 

Britten, William 

Brockman, John H. 

Brooks, George A. 

Brooks, George M. 

Brooley 

Brown, Clifton B. 

Brown, Emory 

Brown, George A. 

Jirown, (iilbert A. 

Brown, James II. 

Brown, Richard H. 

Brown, Theodore 

Brown, Walter 

Brown, Walter J. 

Bruce, Richard W. 

Brunil, Edmond 

Bryson, John E. 

Buchanan, Joseph 

Buck, Charles E. 



Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of : 


Death 


Page 


Private 


I) 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


9 




Private 


D 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Musician 


H 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


24 


290 


Private 


A 


8 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


2 




Private 


V 


71 N. Y. V. Inf. 


July 


I 


7S 


Private 


L 


71 N. Y. Y. Inf. 


July 


I 


M, 15 


Private 


B 


2 U. S. Y. Inf. 


Sept. 


10 


299 


Maj. and Surg. 


2 Mass. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


13 


' 


Private 


C 


9 U. S. Y. Inf. 


Sept. 


29 




Artificer 


F 


20 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


13 


274 


Private 


A 


I U. S. Y. Cav. 


July 


2 


^Si 


Sergeant 


D 


17 r. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 


29, 263 


Private 


L 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 


290 


Private 


E 


I I'. S. Inf. 


July 


17 




Sergeant 


B 


2 U. S. Y. Inf. 


Sept. 


21 




Artificer 


C 


9 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


23 




Private 


B 


12 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


195 


Wagoner 


F 


I 111. Y. Inf. 


Se])t. 


3 


281 


Hosp. Steward 


9 Mass. Y. Inl". 


Aug. 


10 


157 


Musician 


H 


24 U. S. Inf. 


July 


29 


286 


Private 


I 


34 Mich. \'. Inf. 


Aug. 


25 


2 So 


Private 


K 


2 U. S. Y. Inf. 


Sept. 


21 


2S2 


Civilian 






Oct. 


22 




Sergeant 


G 


I I'. S. Cav. 


.luly 


21 




Private 


L 


I 111. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 




Private 


E 


2 Mass. Y. Inf. 


July 


I 


208 


Corporal 


L 


2 Mass. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


I 




Private 


G 


I I". S. Inf. 


July 


17 




I'rivate 


N 


71 N. Y. Yol. Inf. 


July 


I 


^33 


Corporal 




10 U. S. Cav. 






297 


Wagoner 


G 


24 L'. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


K 


5 I'. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


12 


301 


Private 


H 


9 I'. S. \ol. Inf. 


Nov. 


II 




Private 


F 


24 U. S. Inf. 






304 


Private 


D 


6 C. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


no 


Private 


A 


17 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


189 


Private 


D 


71 N. V. \ . Inf. 


Aug 


. 11 




Private 


M 


2 Mass. \'. Inf. 


.\ug 


. 10 




Private 


F 


2 U. S. Ar:. 


July 


15 


242 


Private 


E 


5 U. S. Inf. 


Oct. 


31 




Corporal 


B 


9 V. S. V. Inf. 


Sept 


• 24 




Private 


H 


2 Mass. \'. Inf. 


July 


30 





fln^cr ot tbc Jrallcn 



4L>1 



Name 
Buehler, Fred 
Buell, Raymond C. 
Buford, James J. 
Burnham, Arthur M. 
Burgin, Hardy L. 
Burke, John F. 
Burnette, Edward D. 
Burton, Frank M. 
Busby, Chit". 
Buscher, Albert F. 
Bussian, Conrad A. 
Butcher, Charles Albert 
Butler, David 
Byers, Adam R. 
Byers, William H. 

Calhoun, William 
Callanan, Edward 
Callery, Bartholomew 
Calmes, Calhoun C. 
Campbell, Franklin 

Capron, AUyn K. 

Cary, Francis \V. 
Carnagie, F'rank 
Carol 

Carroll, Michael J. 
Carson, Garrett H. 
Carson, Lee 
Carter, Frank 
Casey, Francis 
Cashion, Roy V. 
Chamberlain, Clarence C. 
Chambers, Merritt B. 
Champlin, Fred. E. 
Chapman, Albert J. 
Chase, John H. 
Chatham, Albert A. 
Chevers, William E. 
Christiansen, Axel S. 
Chubbs, Henry 



Rank Company 



I'rivate 


E 


Sergeant 


A 


Private 


E 


Private 


K 


Private 


A 


Private 


E 


Private 


L 


Private 


L 


Private 


L 


Private 


E 


Private 




Corporal 


A 


Private 


K 


Private 


I 


Private 


C 


Cook 


i; 


Corporal 


E 


Corporal 


]! 


Private 


B 


Private 


G 



Captain 



Private 


H 


Private 


E 


Private 


I> 


Private 


A 


Musician 


A 


Private 


B 


Private 


A 


Private 


K 


Private 


I) 


Private 


I 


Private 


A 


Private 


A 


Private 


B 


Private 


E 


Corporal 


L 


Private 


1 


Private 


E 


Private 


B 



Regiment 


Date of 


Deuth 1 


Pate 


3 f. ^. \ . Inl. 


Oct. 


•5 






2 r. S Int". 


Aug. 


25 




2M 


24 I . .S. Inf. 








304 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


iS 




275 


5 U. S. Inf. 


Oct. 


lo 






17 U. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




94 


3 1'. .^. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


21 






S3 -Mich. V. Inl. 


Aug. 


14 




2S8 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 








91 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


I 






Hosp. Corps U. .'^. 


A. Aug. 


25 






10 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


21 




-';('. 


6 l'. .^. Inf. 


July 


I 






5 r. S. V. Inl. 


(let. 


10 






17 I'. .S. Inf. 


July 


27 


29 


. 26J 


5 I'. S. inf. 


Oct. 


4 






9 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


2 






13 C. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




' '7 


5 r. S. V. Inf. 


< »ct. 


4 






7 V. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


'1 


( 'T'- 


2'^5 

'73. 


I U. S. V. Cav. 


June 


24- 


224. 
y 240 


232. 
, 24a 


9 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 




274 


7 r. S. Inf. 


Au-. 


I 






25 L . S. Inf. 


July 


I 






Ji r. S. Inf. 


July 


20 






5 r. .^. Inf. 


Sept. 


9 






7 r. S. inf. 


July 


I 




190 


24 U. S. Inf. 








303 


2 V. ^. V. Inf. 


.^ept. 


>5 




2S2 


I l. S V. Cav. 


July 


S 






34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


10 




89 


41". .^. Inf. 


Aug. 


9 






I r. .S. V. C av. 


July 


2 






34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 




260 


2 U. S. Inf. 


July 


30 




258 


5 r. S. Inf. 


Oct. 


24 






71 y. V. V. inl. 


Au-. 


I 




2(>l 


16 I . S. Inf. 


July 


I 


(See . 


fVvel) 


24 I . S. inf. 


Aug. 


30 




291 



4-2-I 



HiiDct ot tbc jfallcn 



Name 


Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


Page 


Chiirchniaii, Clark 


2 Lieut. 




12 L . S. Inf. 


July 


" ( I 


34, 35, 
73, 191 


Clark, Charles M. 


Private 


M 


5 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


21 




Clark, Harry 


Private 


A 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


188 


Clark, Robert F. 


Private 


E 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


7 




Clark, Willie 


Private 


C 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


14 




Clausz, William H. 


Private 


A 


lo I'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 


260 


Cleary, John A. 


Private 


G 


7 U. S Inf. 


July 


I 


188 


Clease, John H. 


Private 


E 


2 U. S. Lif. 


July 


30 




Clements, Ernest 1 1. 


Private 


C 


6 U. S. Cav. 


July 


16 




Ciemmens, Charles 


Private 


H 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


26 


26r 


Clements, Bennett T. 


Private 


C 


4 U. S. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


28 




Cole, Eugene F. 


Private 


I 


2 Mass. V. Inf 


Aug. 


12 




Colebaugh, John A. 


Piivate 


C 


i6 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 




Coleman, George W . 


Private 


M 


8 Ohio V. Inf 


Aug. 


5 




Colling, Robert 


Private 


G 


l6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


116 


Collins, Hardy C. 


Private 


H 


4 U. S. Art. 


July 


24 




Comb, C. C. 


Teamster 




U. S. Army 






2S5 


Connolly, James 


Private 


C 


I U. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


8 


278 


Connor, Joseph R. 


Corporal 


M 


5 U. S. \-. Inf. 


Oct. 


21 




Connors, Henry E. 


Sergeant 


G 


33 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


21 


292 


Conselyea, Charles 


Private 


B 


13 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


118 


Conway, Daniel 


Corporal 


C 


7^U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


188 


Cooley, Dan D. 


Private 


K 


3 U. S. Cav. 


July 


I 


140, 150 


Cooney, James 


Private 


F 


3 U. S. V. Inf 


Oct. 


I 




Coons, Charles A. 


Sergeant 


H 


I U. S. Inf. 


July 


31 




Corbin, M. T. 


Private 


C 


10 U. S. Cav. 


July 


6 


211 


Corbin, Robert T. 


Private 


H 


5 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


21 


301 


Corwin, William H. 


Private 


C 


22 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 




Costello, Thomas A. 


Corporal 


H 


9 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


29 




Courson, Robert L. 


Private 


B 


3 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


19 




Covert, Frank M. 


Private 


H 


16 U. S. Inf 


Sept. 


2 


256 


Cousins, Benjamin 


Corpora! 


B 


25 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


203 


Covey, Fred G. 


Private 


U 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


9 




Cox, James J. 


Private 


D 


4 U. S. V. Inf 


Nov. 


24 




Creighton, Prancis 


Lieut. 


IJ 


U. S. V. Signal Cor 


ps Oct. 


24 




Cristor, Martin 


Corporal 


B 


9 U.S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


24 




Crocker, \Villiam I . 


I'rivate 


A 


7 L. ^. Inf. 


July 


I 


1 88 


Crockwell, Williaia 1 1. 


Private 


M 


2 .Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 




Cropper, Ildmund W. 


Private 


C 


2 L'. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


19 




Crowley, Con 


Private 


D 


7 U. S. Inf 


July 


I 


189 


Culman, (jeorge H. 


Private 


M 


34 Mich. \ . Inf. 


Aug. 


9 


27S 



1ln^cl ot the jfallcu 



Name 


Rank Company 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


Pace 


Curtin, Jolin A. 


Private 


L' 


2 U. ^. Inf. 


Aug. 


»5 


257 


Cusliing, Charles I'. F. 


Private 


C 


71 N. V. \ . Inf. 


July 


1 




Dahl, John 


Sergeant 


G 


12 U. .'^. Inf. 


luly 


I 


IS9 


Daly, Michael 


Private 


M 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


July 


1 


7^». 77 


Daly, Michael 


Private 


(1 


3 U. S. Cav. 


Sept. 


30 




Danade, I'aul 


Civilian 






Oct. 


21 




Danforth, Harry W. 


Acting Asst 


.. Surgeon 




July 


2 


253 


Darr, Hubert 


Private 


F 


33 Mich. \ . Inf. 


Aug. 


S 




Davis, Bartholomew 


Private 


C 


9 V. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


30 




Davis, George E. 


Private 


D 


9 C. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


22 




Davis, Hugh ('■. 


Private 


E 


2 Mass. \ . Inf 


Aug. 


II 


2f.7 


Davis, James 


Private 


D 


9 1'. S. V. Inf. 


."^ept. 


24 




Davis, James A. 


Private 


F 


12 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


2S 




Davis, John 


Private 


A 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


13 


92 


Davis, Robert Dudley 


Private 


C 


7 C. S. Inf. 


July 


1 


ISS 


Davis, Thomas 


Private 


D 


7 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


23 


281 


Davis, Ulysses 


Private 


C 


lo L'. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


8 




Davis, William 


Private 


A 


21 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


96 


Dawson, Tilden W. 


Private 


L 


I U. S. V. Cav. 


June 


24 2 


33. 242 


Debend, Leopold 


Civilian 






Aug. 


26 


299 


Decker, Joseph S. 


Private 


I 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


July 


I 


79 


Dekinder, J. V. 


Civilian 




Stevedore 


Nov. 


'3 




] )elbridge, Eilward 


Private 


h 


I U. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




De Leon, Rudolph (missing 


;) Private 


1-: 


in I U. S. Cav. action July 


1 




Delene, Albert 


Corporal 


1. 


9 C. S. V. Inf 


Oct. 


7 




Dellohunt, William 


Private 


M 


9 L". S. V. Inf. 


.Sept. 


16 




Demery, Benjamin F. 


Private 


B 


3 C. S. V. Inf. 


f^ct. 


10 




Dempster, William D. 


Private 


C 


2 V. S. Inf. 


July 


3 


97 


Deaths, Kahlert 


I'rivate 




13 U. S. Inf. 






289 


Denworth, T. 15. 


Civilian 






Oct. 


9 




Depler, Frank 


Private 


C 


8 Ohio V. Inf. 


Aug. 


7 




Dermody, l-'erdinand 


Private 


E 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


26 




Dermody, James M. 


Private 


( ; 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


189 


Duerr, Chas. 


Corporal 


!• 


13 U. .S. Inf. 


July 


2 




Desmond, Michael J. 


Private 


L 


9 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 


"59 


Detrick, Thos. 




I 


2 V. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 


257 


Devoe, Peter H. 


Private 


E 


7 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


It 


286 


Dickinson, Walter M. 


I Lieut. 




17 r. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




Diggs, Charles 1 1 . 


Private 


D 


24 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


7 


289 


Dimery, Benjamin 1'. 


Private 


i: 


3 I . S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


It 




Dix, Peter H. 


Private 


K 


1 L". S. Cav. 


June 


24 


24? 



424 



HuDej ot tbe ^fallen 



Name 
Dodge, Charles 
Dodson, John H. 
Doherty, George H. 
Dolan, John F. 
Dolan, Wilham J. 
Dollard, William H. 
DoUiver, Harry A. 
Donovan, Timothy 
Doran, John 
Doran, John 
Dorn, John 
iJouglas, Frank W. 
Dowling, Richard N. 
Driskill, Daniel ?. 
Drum, John 
Dudley, William T. 
Dugan, Jesse 
Dugas, Anatole 
Duke, Samuel 
Dumpily, William 
Dunbar, Austin J. 
Dunn, John 
Dwyer, Frederick W. 

Ecker, John W. 
Edgar, James 
P'dwards, Frank 
Egan, William V. 
Egbert, Joseph O. 
Elliott, William G. 
Ellis, G. H. 
Elwell, Charles 
Endsley, (juy D. 
English, George 
Ennis, Thomas S. 
Enyart, Silas R. 
Erwin, William J. 

I'airchild, John W. 
Fallon, Jolin E. 
Fariell, James V. 
Fatlik, Steven 



Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


Page 


Captain 


C 


24 U. S. Inf. 


July 


3" 


285 


Private 


C 


10 U. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




Corporal 


A 


I U. S. V. Cav. 


June 


24 


242 


Seaman 




U. S. N. 


July 


5 


58 


Private 


D 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


29 


261 


Private 


C 


S2 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


26 


289 


Private 


H 


2 U. S. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


27 


299 


Corporal 


D 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


14 




Private 


C 


13 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


109 


Private 


I 


2 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


14 




Corporal 


F 


6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


117 


Cirilian 






Sept. 


8 


299 


Private 


F 


13 U. S. Inf. 


Tub- 


I 


120 


Private 


A 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


20 




Captain 




10 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


119 


Private 


G 


7 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 


266 


Private 


C 


5 I'. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


25 


301 


Private 


D 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


July 


2 


208 


Private 


G 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


13 




Private 




U. S. M. C. 


June 


II 


52,58 


Private 


F 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


I 




Corporal 


li 


8 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


10 




Private 


B 


7 V. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


190 


Private 


G 


9 U. S. Inf. 


Aug 


3 




Private 


I 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


26 


291 


Private 


F 


3 I. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


30 




Private 


B 


6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


1-" 


2 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


16 


259 


I Lieut. 


E 


12 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 


298 


Chf. Yeoman 


U. S. N. 


July 


3 


50, 58 


Sergeant 


C 


2 U. S. Inf. 


June 


26 




Private 


F 


I U. S. V. Cav. 


July 


18 




Private 


B 


10 U. S. Cav. 


June 


22 




Private 


L 


3 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


2 




Private 


L 


I U. S. V. Cav. 


July 


I 




Private 


y 


I r. S. V. Cav. 


June 


24 


242 


Private 


c 


10 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


24 


2S1 


Private 


H 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


13 


291 


Private 


11 


9 Mass. \'. Inf. 


July 


26 


286 


Private 


F 


I U. S. Cav. 






276 



^ln^c.l• ot tbc jf alien 



i-j'. 



Name 


Rank Company 


Regiment 


Date of 


Death 


Page 


Fenney, Michael 


Civilian 






Sept. 


2 


291 


Fesette, Arthur E. 


Private 


C 


33 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


2 


28(> 


Field, Charles II. 


I Lieut. 


L 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


luly 


I 


209 


Fields, Ashley 


Private 


M 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


>7 


86. 87 


Fish, Jr., Hamilton 


Sergeant 


L 


I U. S. V. Cav. 


June 


-;^ 


-!4. 235. 
242 


Fisher, Charles 


Private 


I! 


5 r. S. Inf. 


Oct. 


20 




Fisher, Morris C. 


Private 


A 


20 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Heckenstine, George 


Private 


C 


20 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


30 


280 


Flint, John 


Private 


¥ 


3 U. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


22 




Flowers, Mitchell 


Sergeant 


C 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


29 




Foley, Charles 


Artilicer 


B 


8 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Foley, John 


Private 


C 


8 U. S Inf. 


Aug. 


»3 




Foor, Adron E. 


Private 


A 


17 r. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




Fornance, James 


Captain 




13 I . S. Inf. 


July 


I 


252 


Forrester, William L. 


Corporal 


H 


22 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Force, Albert G. 


Major 




I I". S. Cav. 


July 




37. ^o. 
SI. 141 


Fort, Lewis 


Trumpeter 


II 


9 U. S. Cav. 


July 


1 




Foster, Leonard A. 


Private 


C 


5 U. S. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


12 




Foster, Dudley A. 




F 


7 U. S. Inf. 






2S8 


Frague, William 


Private 


A 


71 X. V. V. Inf. 


July 


I 




Frank, Abel .S. 


Private 


I) 


S Ohio V. Inf. 


Aug. 


28 




Franklin, Charles 


Officer's Servant 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


28 


301 


Franklin, John 


Private 


L 


SS Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


I 


293 


Frederick, William 


Private 


K 


9 V. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


20 


2S2 


French, Lynward 


Chf. Bo'sn's 


Mate 


U. S. X. 


Aug. 


9 


5S 


P>olkey, Edward 


Private 


G 


I I". S. Cav. 


July 


I 




Fuller, Frank M. 


Private 


M 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


10 


2S9 


Furlong, Walter P. 


Private 


E 


r. S. Eng. Corps 


Sept. 


2 




Furgeson, Davis C. 


Private 


M 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


July 


>9 




Fuson, William T. 


Private 


A 


17 I . S. Inf. 


July 


' 


19c 


Gaddie, Thomas 11. 


I'rivate 


G 


23 Kan. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


«9 




(Jaines, Mosley 


Private 


B 


10 I'. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


>9 


292 


Galbraith, Hugh J. 


Private 


G 


7 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 




Galvin, William 


Private 


A 


8 I". S. Inf. 


\ug. 


7 




Ganger, Paul R. 


Private 


I) 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


2A 


26,88 


Garrett, John 


Private 


D 


24 I . S. Inf. 






304 


Garrett, Willis 


Private 


K 


8 III. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


16 




Garvin, Heniy 






Govt. \\ iicelwrighi 


Oct. 


26 




Geany, Patrick D. 


Private 


G 


16 U. S. Inf. 


July 


28 





426 



•jlu^e.l ot tbe jfallcu 



Name 
Geaiin, Patrick 
Gibbs, John V,. 
Ciibler, Frank 
Gibney, Michael 
Gibson, William 
Giesemann, Arnold 
Gifl'ord, Jerome F. 
Gilbeit, Thomas V. 
Gilbreath, Erasmus C. 
Gillman, Waller 
Cioo:l, John C. 
Godfrey, Lee K. 
Godley, Forest A. 
Goetz, Herman W. 
Ciombert, Charles 
Good, Henry 
Gordon, Albert F. 
Gordon, Perry E. 
(iough, William J. 
Grady, Patrick J. 
Graflin, Frank 
Graham, Harvey H. 
Grahn, Gus. 
Gratz, Pxlward 
Gravel, Joseph, Jr. 
Gray, Albert H. 
Gray, John 
Gray, Walter 
tiregg, John E. 
Green, Henry C. 
Green, Warren 
Green, William C. 
Griener, Joseph 
Griffin, Arthur 
Griffin, Joseph C. 
Griffith, Jesse J. 
Griggs, William 
Grills, Henry J. 
Gruber, Daniel E. 
Gruby, Henry F. 
Gund, Adams 

Gurney, John A. 



Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of 


Death 


Page 


Private 


l- 


12 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




190 


Act. Asst. 


Surg. 


V. S. N. 


June 


12 


54 


,58 


Private 


I 


8 Ohio V. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 




288 


Private 


P. 


22 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 






Private 


G 


7 V. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


7 




269 


Private 


K 


71 N. Y. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


13 




305 


Private 


Band 


13 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


2 




261 


Private 


D 


34 Mich. Inf. 








274 


Major 




4 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


22 






Private 


F 


20 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


14 




157 


Private 


E 


16 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


31 




256 


Private 


G 


10 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




95 


Private 


G 


7 L. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 






Private 


F 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


10 




280 


Private 


K 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


16 




305 


.Sergt. Maj 




U. S. M. C. 


June 


13 5- 


;,5^ 


;, 60 


Private 


H 


4 U. S. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


29 






Private 


I 


20 U. S. Inf. 


July 


31 




157 


Musician 


H 


9 U. S. Inf. 


July 


23 






Major 




9 Mass. \'. Inf. 


July 


30 




157 


Private 


A 


6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 10, 


114 


,H5 


Private 


A 


7 V. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


7 




266 


Private 


L 


71 N. Y. V. Inf. 


July 


29 




262 


Chf. Master-at-Arms 


L. S. \. 


Aug. 


4 




58 


Private 


M 


2 Mass. v. Inf. 


July 


21 






Private 


B 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




190 


Private 


F 


17 U. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




94 


Private 


H 


3 L". S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


19 






Private 


I 


I 111. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


14 


286, 


288 


'rroojier 


E 


I L'. S. Y. Cav. 


July 


I 


140, 


148 


Private 


H 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 




285 


Private 


H 


2 Mass. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


9 




268 


Private 


D 


34 Mich. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 




276 


Private 


H 


9 V. S. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


26 






Private 


11 


8 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 




268 


Sergeant 


C 


I 111. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 




288 


Private 


H 


24 U. S. Inf. 








304 


Corporal 


H 


34 Mich. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


6 




276 


Private 


C 


8 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


8 




268 


Private 


C 


4 L. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




199 


Private 


T 


I U. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




151 


2 Lieut. 


I 


24 U. S. Inf. 


July 


( : 
I 

1 


122. 124, 
125 



1In^cl ot tbc jfal I en 



Name 
Guy, Robert C. 

Ilaag, Joseph M. 
Haan, I'eier I'. 
Haefner, Harry 
Hagerstrand, Andrew 1'. 
Hague, Harry G. 
Hakanson, Kabian H. 
Halberg, Gust 
Hale, Archie C. 
Hall, Joel R. 
Halman, Frederick 
Haniill, Willard D. 
Hamilton, James M. 
Hamilton, John \V. 
Hamilton, William 
Hamrod, Justice H. (see 
Haney, James M. 

Happer, (ieorge L. (see 

Harden, Richard J. 

Harris, Kdward 

Harris, Oliver 

Harrison, Charles 

Hart, Parker S. 

Hartman, Theodore 

Harwood, Justice \V. 

Haughton, ClifTord, 

Haven, George F. 

Hayes, D. C. 

Hayes, James 

Hayes, Mitchell E. 

Hays, Vener C. 

Haywood, Henry 

Healy. Patrick J. 

Heath, Lewis C. 

Hees, Christian 

Helm, Victor 

Henderson, John F. \V. 

Hendricks, Mils A. 

Henry, Arthur 

Henk, Cornelius 

Hibner, William C. 



Rank Company 
Private D 



Sergeant 


1- 


Private 


1» 


Private 


(; 


Private 


n 


Private 


11 


Private 


H 


I'rivale 


E 


Sergeant 


L 


Corporal 


I! 


Sergeant 


]v 


Private 


A 


l.t. Col. 




Private 


A 




F 


Ibamrod) 




Private 


I' 


Hopper) 




I Lieut. 


A 


Corporal 


I 


Corporal 


D 


Private 


F 


Private 


C 


Priva'e 


H 


Civilian 




Private 


F 


I'livate 


I) 
1) 


Corporal 


J > 
C 


Sergeant 


C 


Private 


11 


Sergeant 


K 


Private 


I" 


Private 


C 


Private 


E 


Artificer 


A 


Musician 


(', 


Private 


L 


Sergeant 


]! 


Private 


H 


Sergeant 


H 



Regiment 


Date of Death 


PaKC 


2 I'. S. Cav. 


Aug 


12 


298^ 


1 6 L. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


'34 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 


274 


I V. S. V. Cav. 


June 


2* 


234. 242 


7 r. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


2."; 


281 


S < )lii., W Inf. 


July 


.;i 




2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


6 




2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


6 




2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


'5 




I U. S. V. Cav. 


July 


I 


140. >47 


17 r. S. Inf. 


July 


'7 




2 V. S. Cav. 


July 


23 




9 U. S. Cav. 


luly 


1 25 


• Mt.J?' 


20 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


l> 




24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


29 


29S 


6 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


ifi 


2()l 


I I). C. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


9 


285 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Seju. 


15 




2 Mass. Inf. 






29S 


22 V. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


I 




7 C. S. Inf. 


July 


15 




S L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


S 






Aug. 


19 




9 I". S. \'..l. Inf. 








I 111. \ . Inf. 


Aug. 


5 


2S8 


20 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 


274 


2 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 


257 


2 U. S. Inf. 


July 


3 




20 I'. S. Inf. 


Aug 


5 




I l. S. V. Cav. 


July 


2 




34 Mich. V. Inf. 


.\ug. 


4 




71 N. V. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


S 


278 


17 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


1 89 


2 U. S. Art. 


July 


I 




6 C. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




I U. S. V. Cav. 


July 


I 


I4S, 149 


^i Micl V. Inf. 


Aug. 


10 


286 


C. U. S. A. 


Aug. 


«5 


291 


5 U. S. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


5 





42S 



Hu^ev of tbe jfalleu 



Name 
Hicks, Charles 
Hill, Hubert 
Hines, Joseph J- 

Hinlong, 

Hinnen, George E. 
Hoadley, Charles J. 
Hogan, John 
Hogsett, Harry L. 
Holderness, George R. 
Holland, Charles D. 
Holliday, Charles J. 
Holloway, George R. 
Hoi man, Fred 
Holmes, Joseph 
Hone, Harvey M. 
Hoppe, Frank E. 
Hopper, George L. 
Hossfield, Albert 
Houghton, Clifford J. 
Howard, Percy H. 
Howe, Tom. 
Howitt, John 
Hudson, Gus. 
Huffman, Melville B. 
Hughes, Cam 
Hughey, Robert F. 
Hulme, Francis 
Hunt, Jesse M. 
Husby, Olaf 
Hussey, Eugene A. 



Ill, James B. 

Ibamrod, Justice H. (see Hamrod) 

Immen, George L. 

Ingle, Reuben 

Ingonian, Madison 

Isler, Nathaniel S. 



Jackson, Charles H. 
Jacob, Charles D, 
Jacobson, Nathan 
Jarvis, Walter A. 



Rank C< 


ampany 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


Page 


I'rivate 


F 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


288 


Private 


D 


10 U. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


^3 




Private 


E 


9 U. S. Cav. 


Aug 


4 




Private 




U. S. Engs. 






269 


Corporal 


F 


2 L'. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


7 


281 


Private 


L 


I III. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


8 


287 


Private 


D 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


8 


278 


Private 


G 


4 U. S. Art. 


July 


17 




Prin. Mus. 




34 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


29 




Private 


M 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


G 


20 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


E 


7 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


29 


268 


I Sergt. 




17 U. S. Inf. 


July 


17 




Private 


F 


9 U. .S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


27 




Corporal 


A 


16 U. S. Inf. 


July 


4 




Private 


A 


3 U. S. Inf. 


July 


3 


97 


Corporal 


H 


8 Ohio V. Inf. 


Aug. 


7 


290 


Private 


C 


4 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


199 


Private 


F 


9 U. s. Inf. 


Sept. 


8 


299 


Private 


B 


I U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


267 


Private 


D 


25 U. .S. Inf. 


July 


I 


203 


Corporal 


C 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


25 


256 


Private 


H 


24 U. .S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


C 


9 U. S. Inl". 


Aug. 


I 


298 


Private 


C 


24 L'. .S. Inf. 


Aug. 


29 




Private 


B 


6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


C 


7 U. S. Inf. 


j"iy 


I 


188 


Corporal 


B 


7 C. S Inf. 


July 


I 


189 


Private 


L 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 




Private 


A 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


24 


281 


Private 


A 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


19 




Ramrod) 










298 


Corporal 


C 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


A 


20 L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


75 


(). M. Serg. 


D 


9 U. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


8 




Private 


H 


7 Inf. 


July 


I 


190 


\Vagoner 


15 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


12 




Private 


G 


I U. S. Cav. 


July 


I 


112, 141 


Civilian 






Aug. 


2 




Private 


A 


9 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


19 


276 



II 11 ^ CI ot tbc jfallci\ 



4'J'.t 



Name 

Jasmin, Placide 
Jenkins, John 
Jennings, Henry T. 
Jensen, Hans K. T. 
Jerome, L. \'. 
Jewell, Nelson M. 
Jilbert, Thomas V. 
Jindra, Albert 
Johnson, Andrew 
Johnson, August 
Johnson, Charles 
Johnson, Christian 
Johnson, Conrad C. 
Johnson, Ernest 
Johnson, George 
Johnson, Henry 
Johnson, James 
Johnson, Josh W. 
Johnson, Lewis 
Johnson, Otto W. 
Johnson, Peter 
Johnson. Richard W. 
Johnson, S. O. (not found 
Johnson, Samuel \'. 
Johnson, Sylvester 
Johnson, William F. 
Johnson, W. M. 
Jones, Archibald H. 
Jones, John W. 
Jones, Louis 
Jones, R. A. 
Jones, Richard 
Jones, William 
Joyce, John 

Kallock, William 
Kane, John 1!. 
Kane, Robert 
Kaullin, Fred 
Kefler, George 
Kelly, Daniel J. 
Kelley, Her. H. 



Rank Company 


Kcgimcnt 


Date of 


Death 


Page 


Private 


C 


9 L S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


«3 


92 


Private 


K 


9 L'. S. Cav. 


Sept. 


-> 


256 


Corporal 


K 


9 ^Lass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


275 


Private 




11. C. U. S. Army 
9 L . S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


IS 


2S2 


Private 


A 


2 L\ r- Inf. 


Aug. 


I 


25-S 


Private 


1) 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 




Private 


B 


3 r. S. Inf. 


July 


2 


20S 


Private 


F 


2 U. S. Cav. 


July 


20 




Private 


F 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


20 


270 


Civilian 






Sept. 


4 


299 


Private 


A 


I L . S. Inf 


July 


31 




Private 


A 


I I . S. Inf. 






269 


Private 


!•■ 


lo r. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


14 




Private 


B 


9 I'. S. \'. Inf. 


Sept. 


J9 




Sergeant 


F 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


27 




Private 


H 


9 U. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




Sergeant 


F 


3 r. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


7 




Corporal 


11 


24 L . S. Inf. 






304 


Private 


F 


4 U. S. Art. 


Aug. 


2 


2SS 


Private 


II 


22 U. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




Piivate 


t; 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


10 




on rolls) 


F 


7 l'. S. Inf. 


July 


30 




Private 


I 


7 U. S. inf. 


Aug. 


I 




Private 


Band 


S 111. V. Inf. 


()ct. 


22 




Corporal 


B 


10 U. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




Teamster 




S 111. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


19 




Private 


F 


2 I . S. inf. 


Aug. 


25 


281 


i). M. Sergt. 


E 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


1 


iSS 


Private 


F 


9 l . s. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


8 




Private 


P. 


7 U. S. Inf. 






190 


1 -aborer 




I Div. L\ S. Army 








Laborer 






.^ep> 


2 




Corporal 


E 


9 C. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


C. 


22 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


s 


26S 


Private 


H 


9 U. S. Inf. 


Aug, 


. II 




Corporal 


A 


16 C. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


A 


16 L". S. Inf. 


July 


1 




Packmaster 




C. S. .\rniy 






297 


Private 


c; 


12 C. ^ Inf. 


July 


I 




Piivate 


C 


4 C. S. InC 


July 


1 


199 



-i;jo 



1[n^c.^ ot tbc Jfalleu 



Name 
Kelley, Robert G. 
Kendig, James A. 
Kent, George 
Keplinger, Charles C. 
Kerrigan, E. 
Kiernan, John J. 
Killgallon, John 
King, James Clarence 
Kingston, Charles W. 
Kirby, Peter 
Knowles, William R. 
Kocarnik, l.ouis 
Koch, Ebert E. 
Koester, Henry, Jr. 
Kolbe, Gustav A. 
Koops, Carl 
Koschig, Charles E. 
Kroupa, Edward C. 
Kru]ip, Otto 
Kuhlmann, Charles 
Kuykendall, Ered I). 
K>tc, JohnW. 

Ladley, Harold W. 
La Cross, Oliver L. 
Lahman, Ralph 
Lakeman, Bryon L. 
Landmark, Frederick 
Lane, Joseph D. 
Langley, James L. 
Lanois, Joseph ^L 
Lannen, John 
Larson, Christian 
Larson, Hans 
Lautzenheiser, Irven 
Lavasser, Jerome 
Lawson, John 
Lee, Johr, S. 
Leek, Albert H. 
Leeuwenhook, Gerrit 
Leflwick, Aaron 

♦ 1 he company and date 



Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


Page 


Private 


G 


2 Mass. \'. Inf. 


July 


10 




Private 


F 


2 U. S. Cav. 


July 


20 




Private 


K 


24 Mich. V. Lif. 


Aug. 


22 


59 


Private 


A 


S Ohio V. Inf. 


Aug. 


2* 




Private 


15 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


175. 195 


Private 


C 


13 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


28, 121 


Private 


A 


9 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


21 


282 


Private 


C 


2 Mass. W Inf. 


Sept. 


5 




Corporal 


M 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


16 


282 


Sergeant 


t" 


4 L. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


203 


Corporal 


K 


S Ohio Y. Inf. 


July 


28 




Private 


F 


4 C. S. Art. 


July 


31 


211 


Corporal 


A 


2 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


6 


258 


Private 


L 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 


276 


Private 


K 


I U. S. Cav. 


June 


24 


241 


I Lieut. 




10 I'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


6 




Private 


H 


3} Mich. V. Inf. 


J"iy 


31 


289 


Private 


F 


71 X. Y. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 


280 


Private 


i: 


I C. S. Cav. 


June 


24 


241 


Private 


11 


4 C. S. Art. 


July 


20 




Musician 


1! 


23 Kan. Y. Inf. 


Sept. 


25 




Corporal 


L 


9 .Mass. Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


8 


278 


Private 


K 


I U. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




Private 


1 


2 Mass. Y. Inf 


July 


12 




Private 


t; 


I Ills. \-. 






297 


Private 


I 


cS 111. Y. Inf. 


Oct. 


3 




Corporal 


D 


I U. S. C av. 


July 


I 




Private 


I 


9 Mass. \'. Inf. 


Aug. 


9 


278 


Saddler 


I! 


6 U. S. Cav. 


July 


2 


133 


Private 


L 


2 Mass. \'. Inf. 


July 


3 




Sergeant 


G 


3 U. S. Cav. 


July 


24 


285 


Corporal 


¥ 


12 L. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 


269 


Private 


H 


3 r. S. Inf 


Aug. 


7 


276 


Private 


1) 


S Ohio \'. Inf. 


Aug. 


13 




( Not on 1- 


lolls) 


9 ( . S. Y. Inf 


Sept. 


15 




Private 


K 


9 C. S. Y. Inf. 


Sept. 


29 




Pri vate 


G 


8 Ohio \-. Inf. 


Aug. 


16 


291 


Private 


E 


22 L. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


1 1 


268 


I'rivate 


E 


2 U. S. Inf. 


July 


23 


25S 


Private 


(i 


25 U. S. Inf 


July 


I 


203 


arc different i 


on the headbo.- 


ird. 









•fln^c.l ot tbc Jfallcu 



4;:i 



Name 
Lehr, I'liilip 
Leiningt-r, [ohn A. 
Le Maitre, Paul (I. 
Leonard, I'alrick 
Leonaid, William II. 
Leroy, Frank 
Lester, Isaac A. 
Lewis, Albert 
Lewis, Clarence 
Lewis, George 
Lewis, John A. 
Lewis, Louis H. 
Lewis, Richard T. 
Lewis, William 
Lidell, Thomas 
Liggett, Ed. 
Lind, George 
Lindberg, John P. 
Linder, Roland L. 
Lindcjuist, John N. 
Lines, Max 

Linsener, Carl 

Little, .Vndrew 

Llennoc, Alexander 

Logan, William R. 

l.ogue, David 

Lonergan, Daniel 

I^ong, John W. 

Longway, Thomas 

Losee, I'Vank 

Louis, Clarence C. 

Loundy, Henry D. 

Lovejoy, George B. 

Lutz, P^ugene A. 

Lyman, Plenry K. 

Lynch, Fred. W. 

Lyons, Frank 

I.ytton, John A. 

Macmillan, Xoiniari 
Maguire, John J. 
Maher, Daniel 



Rank 


Company 


RcKiment 


Dale of 


Death 


Page 


Private 


C 


12 I . s h.f. 


July 


I 


190 


Captain 


l' 


S Ohio \ . Inf. 


Aug. 


s 


277 


Private 


1. 


I 111. V. Inf. 


July 


3« 


288 


Sergeant 


1 


6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Musician 


11 


.5 L . S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


280 


Corporal 


1" 


7 U. S. Inf. 






266 


Private 


A 


24 I'. S. inf. 


Aug. 


I 


288 


Corporal 


I 


7 r. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




Private 




2 r. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


20 


256 


Prin. Mus 




7 L. S. Inf. 


July 


22 




I'rivate 


L! 


25 V. ^. Inf. 


Aug. 


(^ 


27r, 


J Lieut. 




9 U. S. Inf. 


luly 


I 


125. I2«. 


Private 


F 


IS r. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


I) 


.) r. S. \ . Inf. 


Oct. 


12 




Private 


I-" 


24 I . .S. Inf. 


July 


2 




Private 


A 


I I'. S. V. Cav. 


June 


24 


23.S, 242 


Private 


D 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 


260 


Private 


1- 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


10 


3'. ^7 


Private 


1 


I V. S. Cav. 


July 


I 


>5« 


Private 


C 


3 L . S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


S2. S3 


Private 


G 


9 L. S. Inf. 


July 


'9 




Private 


I- 


12 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


16 




Private 


G 


2 Mas.-; V. Inf. 


Aug. 


22 




Corporal 


K 


I L". S. Cav. 


June 


24 


242 


Private 


I- 


2 U. S. Art. 


July 


16 




Private 


i; 


I V. S. \'. Cav. 


July 


I 


141. «47 


Private 


11 


13 r. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


10. 125 


Private 


G 


7 r. S. Inf. 


"luly 


1 


1 88 


Private 


B 


9 L'. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


B 


9 L. S. Inf. 


June 


23 




Private 


F 


2 L. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


30 




Private 


V 


20 r. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


157 


Private 


E 


34 Mich. W Inf. 


Sept. 


12 


282 


Private 


G 


I U. .S. \'. Cav. 


Aug. 


«5 




Private 


1) 


10 I . S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


I" 


22 r. S. Inf. 


July 


12 




Civilian 






Oct. 


4 




I'rivate 


C 


2 V. S. Inf. 


J-ily 


2 


97 


G. Private 


.M 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


20 


2Q2 


Private 


t; 


7 C. S. I if. 


July 


I 




Private 


I) 


7 U. S. In;. 


July 


I 


190 



4:i-> 



tlnC'cx of tbc jfallcn 



Name 


Rank O 


ompany 


Regiment 


Date of 


Death 


Page 


Maher, Thomas 


Sergeant 


H 


21 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


21 


280 


Mahon, Anthony 


Private 


A 


8 U. S. Inf. 






269 


Mahoney, Patrick H. 


Private 


D 


20 U. S. Inf. 


July 


26 




Malehan, Arthur 


Private 


L 


33 Mich. \'. Inf. 


Aug. 


17 


291 


Malone, John J. 


Private 


B 


2 Mass. \'. Inf. 


July 


2 


208 


Maloney, Daniel J- 


Private 


C, 


33 Mich. \ . Ii-i". 


Aug. 


13 


291 


Manley, William D. 


Private 


H 


l6 U. S. Ini'. 


Sept. 


4 


299 


Marr, Otis 


Private 


K 


33 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


II 


293 


Marrison, Willis S. 


Trumpeter 


D 


9 Mass. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


26 




Mars, Ward 


Private 


I 


33 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


24 


286 


Martens, Richard 


Private 


c; 


71 X. \. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


28 


256 


Martin, George 


Private 


L 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 


274 


Martin, James A. 


Piivate 


H 


33 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


26 




Massa, Anthony 


Private 


A 


7 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


6 




Mauplin, Socrates 


Private 


G 


I D. C. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


13 


299 


Maxie, William 


Private 


G 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


28 




Mayer, Charles 


Sergeant 


A 


2 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Mayo, Silas Isley 


Private 


C 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 


276 


Meade, Charles M. 


Musician 


C 


8 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Meadows, Daniel 1'. 


Private 


C 


16 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


14 


291 


Mealey, John E. 


Private 


C 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Oct. 


9 


303 


Mellin, Ragner 


Private 


I 


9 Mass. W Inf. 


Aug. 


7 


159 


Mendig, John A. 


Private 


K 


16 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


262 


Mercer, David 


Private 


E 


3 U. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


4 




Messett, Edward 


Private 


G 


7 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


I 


266 


Michael, Harry 


Sergeant 


K 


5 L. S. Inf. 


Oct. 


30 




Michaux, Lawrence 


Private 


C 


9 III. V. h.f. 


Sept. 


14 




Michie, Dennis M. 


I Lieut. 




17 L". S. Inf. 


July 


I 


"4, 133 


Mickelson, Albert 


Private 


A 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


8 


87, 88 


Mickelson, Henry J. 


Corporal 


A 


I 111. V. Inf 


Aug. 


8 




Miller, Charles F. 


Private 


C 


8 Ohio \\ Inf. 


Aug. 


2 




Miller, Clare 


Private 


D 


6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Miller, Henry 


Sergeant 


E 


3 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 


73 


Miller, James H. 


Private 


D 


2 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


25 


281 


Miller, John R. 


Corporal 


G 


24 I . S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Miller, John S. 


Trooper 


E 


I r. S. V. Cav. 


July 


16 




Miller, Raimund 


Sergeant 


¥ 


12 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


189 


Miller, Theodore W. 


Private 


D 


1 I'. S. \ . Cav. 


July 


8 




Miller, Victor 


Sergeant 


I-: 


9 U. S. \'. Inf. 


Sept. 


24 




Minnis, John V. 


Private 


A 


2 U. S. Inf. 


July 


30 


258 


Minor, Edward G. 


Private 


1. 


5 i;. S. Inf. 


Oct 


6 




Miroski, John A. 


Piivate 


M 


I III. V. In'". 


Aug. 


27 


281 



1Iu^e.l of tbc jfallcn 



433 



Name 

Missall, Adoliili N. 

Mitchell, Charles C. 

Mitchell, John D. 

Mitchell, Thomas A. 

Monahan, Patrick J. 

Montgomery, Humphrey 

Moody, Frank E. 

Moore, Edward B. 

Moore", Joseph B. 

Moriarity, Jas. Dominick 

Morris, Joseph 

Morrison, Theophilus \V. 

Mosley, Joseph 

Mosley, NViIliam J. 

Moss, Edward 

Moss, Jesse S. 

Muck, Frank J. 

Mulford, Thomas H. 

Mullen, James M. 

Munden, John A. 

Munger, Eugene 

Murphy, John J. 

Murphy, Thomas 

Murry, Martin T. 

Myers, Charles 

Myhan, Joseph F. 

Myott, Edward 

McAllister, Arthur C. 

McAlpin, William F. 

McBride, Bernard 

McBride, John 

McCafferty, David 

McCarthy, Daniel F. 

McCarthy, James F. 

McCarthy, Timothy K. 

McCartney, John W. 

McCartney, James E. 

McClatchey, Robert 

McClearie, Felix 

McClenahen, Jesse T. 

McColgan, J. 

McConnell, Oliver M. 
28 



Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of 


Death 


Page 


Private 


!•■ 


3 U. S. Int. 


Aug. 


12 


>>4 


Private 


1. 


8 Ohio V. Inf. 


Sept. 


4 


290 


Private 


F 


S Ohio \". Inf. 


Sept. 


4 




Private 


C 


5 U. S. v. Inf. 


Sept. 


24 




Private 


B 


7 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


M' 


265 


Private 


A 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


17 


292 


Private 


K 


2 Mass. \'. Inf. 


July 


I 


208 


Corporal 


11 


8 L". S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


267 


Private 


Band 


4 U. S V. Inf. 


Nov, 


12 




Private 


E 


9 Mass. \'. Inf. 


Aug. 


17 


«57 


lUigler 


C 


9 V. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


17 




Captain 




l6 L'. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


3?. 138 


Private 


D 


9 I. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 






Private 


H 


24 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 


304 


Private 


II 


23 Kan. \ . Inf. 


Nov 


II 




Corporal 


1! 


24 U. S. inf. 


July 






Private 


D 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 






Private 


L 


I 111. \. Inf. 


Aug. 


25 


292 


Private 


F 


6 U. S. Inf. 


July 






Private 


E 


2 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 






Private 


C 


I I . S. Cav. 


.Sept. 




281 


Private 


A 


9 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


24 


2S1 


Private 


E 


S C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 






Private 


F 


22 I . S. Inf. 


July 






Corporal 


1-; 


8 C. S. inf. 


July 






Private 


A 


2 U. S. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


24 




Private 


L 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


13 


275 


Private 


I 


7 U. S. inf. 


July 




iSS 


Private 


I 


3 I . S. \-. Inf. 


Oct. 


15 




Private 


I 


2 C. ^ \". Inf. 


Aug. 


23 


299 


Private 


B 


17 r. ^. inf. 


July 




190 


Private 


I-: 


2 r. S. Inf. 


July 


29 


25S 


Private 


I 


2 U. S. Inf. 


July 


23 




Sergeant 


K 


I r. > .\rl 


July 




76 


Sergeant 


A 


15 I . ^. Inf. 


Aug. 


24 


292 


Corporal 


I) 


10 C. S. Inf. 


July 




96 


Private 


C 


6 L . S. Cav. 


July 






Private 


C 


21 U. S. Inf. 


luly 




96 


Private 


c; 


10 r. S. Inf. 


luly 




96 


Private 


A 


2 I . S. f av. 


July 


17 




Private 




U. S. M. C. 


June 


II 


52, 57 


Corporal 


H 


20 U. S. Inf. 


July 


5 





434 



1In^c.l ot tbc jfallcu 



Name 
McConville, John 

McCorkle, Hariy L. 

McCorniick, Lawton V. V. 
McCreery, tleorge 
McCiUcheon, Charles H. 
McDole, Moses 
McDonald, John A. 
McDonald, Terrence M. 
McDonald, William 
McFadden, Joseph \V. 
McGartlen, Michael 
McGoldrick, Michael 
Mcdown, Charles 
McGowan, James 
McGraw, Patrick 
McGuire, Harvey 
McGuire, J. 
Mcllwain, \\ illiam J. 
Mcintosh. Daniel 

McK 

McLaughlin, George P. 
McLean, l-'rank 11. 
McLain, Jeremiah P. 
McLeod, William E. 
McLoughlin, Eugene B. 
McNamara, John II. 

Naftzger, Fern R. 
Narcisee, Joseph 
Nash, John 
Neal, Edward 
Neary, William C. 
Ncilson, Jens C. 
Nelson, Arthur 
Nelson, Charles C. 
Nelson, J. (?) 
Nelson, John E. 
Nelson, Louis 
Newman, Warren S. 
Newman, A. H. 
Nickens, Samuel 



Rank Company 

Corporal 1! 

2 Lieut. 

Private K 
Maj. Surg. 

Private L3 

Private H 

Private D 

Musician D 

Private E 

Private G 

Sergeant B 

Private C 

I'rivate B 

Private B 

Private B 

Private ¥- 

Private G 

Private IJ 

Private D 



Private 


B 


Corporal 


A 


Private 


B 


.Sergeant 


A 


Private 


A 


Private 


K 


Private 


D 


Private 


C 


Private 


c 


Private 


F 


Lieut. -Col. 




Blacksmith 


F 


Private 


B 


Private 


G 


Private 


C 


Private 


C 


Private 


1 


I'livate 


!■: 


Private 


B 


Musician 


B 



Regiment 
6 L . S, Inf. 
25 L'. S. Inf. 

3 I". S. \'. Inf. 
L'. S. Army 
9 U. S. Inf. 

8 Ohio V. Tnf. 
34 Mich. V. Inf. 
17 I". S. Inf. 

2 U. S. V. Inf. 
I U. S. Cav. 
I U. S. Cav. 
I U. S. Inf. 
— U. S. Inf. 

9 U. S. Inf. 
7 U. S. Inf. 

6 L'. S. InL 

7 L. S Inf. 
13 L'. S. Inf. 

8 U. S. Inf. 

9 Mass. V. Inf. 
5 L. S. V. I of. 
5 L'. S. V. Inf. 
5 L. S. \'. Inf. 
9 Mass. \'. Inf. 
9 Mass. V. Inf. 

8 Ohio V. Inf. 

9 V. S. V. Inf. 

5 U. S. Inf. 

6 L. S. Inf. 

1 L. S. Inf. 

2 V. S. Cav. 

8 Ohio V. Inf. 

3 V. S. Inf. 
24 U. S. Inf. 
6 U. S. Inf. 
20 U. S. Inf. 
16 I'. S. Inf. 
31. S. Inf. 

8 111. W Inf. 



Date of Death 

July I 

lulv I 1 ' 



Oct. 

Aug. 

Aug. 

Aug. 

July 

Aug. 

Oct. 

Aug. 

July 

July 

Aug. 

Aug. 

July 

Aug. 



15 

23 

16 

3 
31 
II 

4 
14 

I 
28 
10 
12 

I 
10 



July I 
July 2 

Aug. 6 
Nov. 19 
Nov. 10 
Sept. 7 
Aug. 16 
Ausj. I ; 



Aug. 
Nov. 

Sept. 
July 

July 
Aug. 



July 12 

.I"ly 3 
July 24 
July 23 
Aug. 23 
Oct. 6 



Page 
120 

?5. 200, 
201 



305 

260 
29, 263 

275 
'S9,i43 

304 
297 
189 
280 
189 
129 
254 
197 
276 



274 
157 



299 
295 

3^4 



89 



^l^^cl ot tbc Jfallcii -i.T) 



Name 
Nikodeni, lohn J. 
Nol)lett, David 
Nordan, I.authling C. 

Norton, Oliver 1!. 
Nottingham, Barton C. 

O'Brien, Josei)h J. 
O'Brien, John O. 
O'Brien, Michael 
O'Brien, Michael J. 
O'Connell, Daniel 
O'Connor, John 10. 
O' Conner, Michael J. 
O'Dowd, John R. 
Oliver, John 
O'Malley, Michael F. 
O'Neill, William 
Ord, J. C. 
O'Shea, Richard 
Owens, Daniel D. 

Packard, Arthur H. 

Palmer, 

I'ark, William 
Park, W. A. 
Pansier, John H. 
Pansier, Max II. 
Payne, I'rench 
Pazsur, John 
Peacock, William R. 
Pease, Harry I,. 
Peixotto, D. I.. M. 
Penn, Edward 
Pendleton, William 
Pepper, John J. 
Perkins, Merrill D. 
Perkins, Milliard F. 
Perry, W. M. M. 
Peterson, Arvid T. 
Phelps, John B. 
Phillips, Charles J. 



Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of 


Death 


Huge 


Corporal 


Is 


I ill. V. inf. 


.Sept. 


»7 


2S2 


Pi i vale 


c 


13th I . S. Inf. 


July 


28 




Private 


A 


5 C. S. Inf. 


< )ct. 


I 




Private 


B 


I r. S. V. Cav. 


July 


. ;' 


^o. M4. 
145 


Corporal 


K 


33 -Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 


2S7 


Private 


C 


2 r. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


19 




Private 


G 


I III. V. i.it". 


Aug. 


29 


291 


Sergeant 


D 


16 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


>.?4 


I I.ieut. 


A 


5 L". S. Inf. 


Sept. 


lO 


301 


Private 


D 


2 I . S. \". Inf. 


Nov. 


2 




Private 


K 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 


304 


Mnj.ir 




9 Mass. \ . inf. 


.\ug. 


6 


159 


Private 


A 


7 L..S. I„f. 


July 


I 


188 


Sergeant 


1-: 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


2 


261 


Private 


Iv 


9 Mass. \'. inf. 


Aug. 


20 


>57 


Captain 


.\ 


1 L'. S. \ . Cav. 


July 


I 




I Lieut. 




6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


Si 


Private 


A 


9 U. S. Inf. 


.Sept. 


2 




Private 


D 


5 C. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


14 




Private 


G 


2 Ma.ss. V. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


!•: 


7 V. S. Inf. 






2S6 


Private 


K 


I 111. V. Inf. 






286 


Sergeant 


1! 


12 L . S. inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


11 


4 I'. S. .\rt. 


Aug. 


'5 


290 


Private 


D 


33 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


29 


289 


Private 


B 


25 V. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


.203 


Private 


C 


8 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


E 


2 C. S. Inf. 


July 


2 ; 


-5S 


Private 


11 


S L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 


274 


Captain 




3 L . S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


24 




Private 


D 


24 L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 


304 


Private 


I'- 


24 I'. S. Inf. 






290 


Private 


E 


6 r. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


8 


27S 


Private 


A 


7 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


9 




Wagoner 


B 


I . S. Cav. 


July 


2 


tii 


Private 


.\ 


24 U. S. Inf. 






iOi 


Private 


K 


I 111. \ Inf. 


Aug. 


3' 


290 


Private 


I) 


-\^ r. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


203 


Private 




33 .Mich. \ . Inf. 






291 



43(5 



*jln^c.l• of ibc Jfallcn 



Name 
Phillips, Jacob P. 
Pike, Wiiliam L. 
Pillcr, John 
Piper, William C. 
Pixton, William A. 
Ploude, Edward 
Poole, Guy E. 
Poole, Thomas 
Poore, William F. 
Powell, Sanford (i. 
Powell, William 
Power, M. J. 
Power, Sylvester 
Powers, Charles A. 
Prather, John H. 
Preger, William 
Preston, George 
Primus, Willie 
Prouty, John A. 
Provost, G. N, 
Pugh, James T. 
Pugh, William J. 
Pullman, Alexander 

Quirke, James 
(Juirke, Thomas C. 

Ralp, Walker 
Ramsey, Robert 
Randall, Harvey 
Rapon, Louis C. 
Rause, Herman (?) 
Ray, Joseph 
Ray, Melvin 
Reddington, John 
Reed, Benton 
Reese, Louis 
Reeves, Walter 
Redinger, Clem 
Reidner, Charles E. 
Keilly, Joseph 





Rank Ci 


Dmpany 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


1 Page 




Private 


E 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 14 


2S5 




Private 


K 


2 Mass. \'. Inf. 


Aug. 7 






Private 


D 


5 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 10 


299 




Corporal 


K 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 4 


269 




Corporal 


B 


I U. S. Cav. 


July I 


141, 151 




Private 


E 


21 C. S. Inf. 


July I 


95 > 9S 




Private 


D 


33 Mich. y. Inf. 


Sept. 13 


292 




Trumpeter 


E 


3 U. S. Inf. 


July 2 






Private 


K 


I D. C. V. Inf. 


July 26 






Private 


1! 


16 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 14 


262, 289 




Private 


D 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 9 






Shipwright 




U. S. N, 


Aug. 30 


5S 




Private 


E 


2 U. S. Cav. 


July 31 






Private 


C 


5 I. S. V. Inf. 


Aug. 18 






Private 


H 


4 C. S. Art. 


Aug. 15 






Private 


A 


71 N. Y. V. Inf. 


July I : 


f4.i5-i2S 




Private 


D 


10 U. S. Cav. 


July 23 


157 




Private 


L 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 18 






Private 


H 


S U. S. Inf. 


July 29 






Artificer 


I 


2 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 24 






Private 


B 


3L'.S.V. 


Dec. 20 






Private 


B 


3 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 30 






Private 


D 


9 L'. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 15 


92 




Corporal 


G 


12 L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 23 


26S 




Private 


D 


8 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 16 






I Sergt. 


M 


9 Mass. V. Inf. 




155 




Private 


C 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 6 


286 




Private 




2 Mass. V. Inf. 








Corporal 


K 


8 U. S. Inf. 


Oct. 27 






Private 


G 


24th r. S. Inf. 




304 




Sergeant 


A 


5 I. S. Inf. 


Oct. 2 






Private 


I 


I U. S. Cav. 


July I 


151 




Corporal 


K 


22 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 10 






Private 


D 


5 U. S. V. Inf. 


Aug. 22 






Private 


K 


3 L'. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 6 






Private 


C 


24 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 8 


287 




Private 


C 


13 U. S. Inf. 


July I 




(name not found) 




10 I'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 5 






Private 


G 


7 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 13 


265 



Ilu^c.i ot tbc jfallcu 



4;;: 



Name 
Reilly, Stephen 
Requa, Richard K. 
Reynolds, Lewis 
Richards, John 
Richardson, Albert 
Richardson, Charles W 
Richmond, (leorge A. 
Riley, lien'ianiin 
Riney, V. 
Ritter, Ephraini 
Rivers, Lawrence W. 
Roach, Patrick 
Robertson, Tom 
Roberts, Robert W. 
Robinson, Adolph 
Robinson, John F. 
Roche, 1 imothy 
Rodman, Henry 
Rooper, Frederick 

Rollo, Wesley C. 

Rose, Harry R. 

Ross, Charlie 

Ross, Edward J. 

Ross, Harvey R. 

Ross, Reuben 

Ross, William J. 

Rote, Frederick 

Rowell, Charles W. 

Royer, ( )ra N. 

Uuckledge, Wm. D. 

Ruhl, David F. 

Rusher, Luther 

Russell, Marcus D. 

Rutledge, Paul 

Ryan, Samuel J. 

Ryan, Thomas 

Ryan, William 

Rydberg, Andrew 

Salisbury, Ijurton 
Saltus, Isaac 
Sanberg, August 



Rank C 


Company 


Regiment 


Date o( Death 


Page 


Private 


1- 


5 L. S. Inl. 


Oct. 13 




Private 


C 


9 L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. H) 


-'-'7 


Private 


A 


I L. S. V. Cav. 


July I 


«3« 


Private 


i; 


24 L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 21 


291 


Musician 


L 


9 I . S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 17 


2S2 


Private 


L 


I 111. V. inl. 


Aug. 20 


90 


Private 


(J 


2 ^L^ss. V. Inf. 


July I 




Private 


M 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 15 




Corporal 


I 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July I 


iSS 


Private 


G 


5 L. S. Inf. 


Oct. 1 1 




Sergeant 


¥ 


3 I . S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 2 




Private 


1-: 


S L. S. Inf. 


July I 




Corporal 


15 


24 L. S. Inf. 


July 27 


2.S9 


Corporal 


B 


24 L'. S Inf. 


July I 




Sergeant 


1) 


9 L. S. \'. Inf. 


Oct. 22 




Trooper 


E 


I L . S. W Cav. 


July 2 


'33 


Private 


G 


S L-. S. Inf. 


Aug. I 




Musician 


I 


2 L'. S. \-. Inl. 


< let. 2 




Corporal 


IJ 


21 L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 4 




Private 


E 


3 L. S. Cav. 


July 2 




Private 


]•: 


16 L'. S. Inf. 


July I 




Private 


I 


I I'. S. Cav. 


Aug. iS 


-5" 


Private 


V. 


6 U. S. Cav. 


July I 


«.i» 


Private 


E 


16 L. S. Inf. 


July I 


« ?4 


Private 


M 


71 N. \. \ . Inf. 


July 2 


70 


Private 


D 


I L. S. Cav. 


July 20 




Private 


A 


13 I. S. Inf. 


July I 


'-5 


Captain 




22 U. S. Inf. 


July 10 


96 


Private 


K 


8 Ohio V. Inf. 


Aug. 6 




Chf. Machin 


ist 


L. .S. N. 


Aug. II 


59 


Private 


C 


5 I. S. Inf. 


Nov. 22 




Private 


F 


5 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 30 


299 


Sergeant 


G 


I U. S. V. Cav. 


June 24 


242 


Corporal 


A 


13 r. S. Inf. 


Juiy 1 


"7 


Private 


G 


7 U. S, Inf. 


July 2 


197 


Private 


C 


2 U. S. Inf. 


July I 


97 


Sergeant 


I 


20 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 14 


2S2 


Private 


1-: 


3 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. I 


33. ^3 


Private 


B 


31 V. S. Inf. 


Aug. 6 


265 


Civilian 


Packer 




.Sept. 22 


2S2 


Private 


E 


7 L. 5i Inf. 


July I 


KS9 



438 



lIn^c.t of tbe jfallcu 



Name 


Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


Page 


Sanders, William H. 


Private 


B 


I U. S. V. Cav. 


Aug. 


12 




Sandoe, George 


Private- 


c; 


21 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


30 


299 


Santo, William T. 


Private 


i> 


I U. S. \'. Cav. 


July 


I 


140, 148 


Saunders, William G. 


Private 


R 


9 iSLiss. \'. Inf. 


Aug. 


6 


157 


Sawin, Joseph 


Private 


A 


7 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


26 




Scheid, Henry J. 


Corporal 


F 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


Jnly 


3 


252 


Schetzel, Ernest A. 


Private 


H 


22 U. S. Inf. 


July 


2 


204 


Schmidt, Herman F. 


Piivate 


M 


2 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


I 




Schneider, Charles 


Private 


L 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


10 




Sater, William A. 


I Lieut. 




13 L. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Schupert, Herbert 


Private 


U. S. 


Hos]). Cori>s. 


Sq.t. 


IS 




Scofield, Sidney A, 


Private 


K 


71 N. Y. V. Inf. 


July 


I 


iiS, 120 


Scotl, Adolphus C. 


Private 


!•■ 


12 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


189 


Scott, Charles 


Trumpetei 


C 


6 U. S. Cav. 


July 


2 




Seabright, Ferdinand 


Private 


L 


33 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


I 




Sedden, James R. 


Private 


A 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


iS 


290 


Seefeldt, Otto H. 


Private 


D 


5 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


16 


301 


Seitz, Frank 


Private 


11 


16 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


-5 




Sharp, Frank E. 


Musician 


C 


33 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


19 


292 


Sharrott, Eugene L. 


Sergeant 


G 


71 N. V. V. Inf. 


Aug, 


13 


274 


Shaw, Harry A. 


Corporal 


F 


24 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


2 


287 


Shaw, John A. 


Private 


F 


71 N. Y. V. Inf. 


.Aug. 


II 


2S0 


Shea, Patrick J. 


Corporal 


A 


7 U. S. Inf 


July 


I 


IS8 


Shelly, W^ 


Private 


D 


20 U. S. Inf. 






285 


Shields, (ieorge 


Private 


H 


7 U. S. Inf 


July 


I 


190 


Shipp, William E. 


I Lieut. 




10 I'. S. Cav. 


July 


I 


155, 157 


Shord, Kinaldo K. 


Private 


H 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


July 


29 


261 


Showalter, William 0. 


Private 


]] 


13 U. S. Inf 


July 


I 




Shupert, Herbert E. 


Private 


P 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


18 




Sills, James F. 


Private 


C 


33 Mich. \'. Inf. 


Aug. 


7 


291 


Simonds, L 


Private, M 


usician 


34 ^lich. \-. Inf. 


Aug. 


20 


Scr 


Simons, Charles 


Private 


I' 


9 U. S. Y. Inf. 


Oct. 


II 




Simpson, Amos J. 


Private 


U 


8 Ohio Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


I 




Sims, William S. 


Private 


H 


6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


7 


95 


Sine, William E. 


Private 


E 


17 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Skinner, Eouis B. 


Private 


P 


71 X. Y. V. Inf 


July 


I 




Slaughter, William H. 


Private 


G 


10 U. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




Slaven, John W. 


Private 


(_; 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


18& 


Slusser, James M. 


I'rivale 


H 


2 U. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




Smith, Arthur 


Private 


M 


9 U. S. V. Inf 


Nov 


27 




Smith, Charles H. 


Sergeant 




I'. S. M. C. 


June 


II 


53.59 


Smith, Ernest 


Private 


F 


10 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


259 



lIuDc.i of the jrallcii 



4:!;t 



Name 
Smith, Francis 
Smith, James I.. 
Siiiilh, laiiics M . 
Smith, lusepli M. 
Smith, Paul 
Smith, Race II. 
Smith, Sandy 
Smith, Streaty I. 
Smith, William 
Smith, William II. 
Smoot, John H. 
Snide, James G. 
Spade, Joseph 
Spencer, Mortimer E. 
Spicer, De Forest A. 
Spicer, Walter li. 
Stallings, James S. 
Stapleford, Charles \\'. 
Starke, Jacob 
Stebbins, Charles A. 
Steel, Seymour G. 
Steele. James B. 
Steele, John W. 
Stetson, Clair II. 
Stetson, Fred. S. 
Stevens, George 
Stevenson, J. Alfred 
Stewart, Arthur D. 
Stewart, I'red. E. 
Stewart, M. 
Stohlman, August 
Stone, Daniel A. 
Stone, William 
Stork, Jesse K. 
Stovall, George 
Strickler, Hairy C. 
Strother, Albert 
Stuart, Fred E. 
Sullivan, Henry 
Sullivan, Jtremiah J. 
Sullivan Patrick (not found 
Sutter, Gu.-tavus \'. 



Rank Company 

Private E 

Private K 

Private M 

Private I', 

Private 15 

Private l'> 

Private II 

Private F 

Sergeant I) 

I Lieut. 

Private A 

I'rivate P. 

Private 1! 

Private 1 1 

Private A 

Postmaster at Guantan 

Private P 

Private I ) 
Civilian Cook 

Private I 

Private F 
I Lieut. 

Private D 
Sergt.-.Maj. 

Private ( '• 

Private E 

Pri%'ate A 

Private C 

Sergeant Sig. C"[)s. 
Teamster 

I'rivate 11 

Private I) 

Private .\ 

Private .\ 

Private I ' 

Private I '• 

I'rivate 1 1 
.Sergeant 

Private ( i 

Private L 

on roll ) F 

Private F 



Regiment 


Date 01 


Death 


Page 


S Ohio \'. Inf. 


Aug. 


-5 


2yi 


4 P. S. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


7 




2 Ma.-^s. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 




9 U. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


9 




b 111. \-. Inf. 


Aug. 


19 




I L S. \ . Cav. 


July 


5 




24 C.S. Inf. 


Aug. 


21 


290 


3 P. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


, 6 




I L. S. Cav. 


luly 


I 




lo U. S. Cav. 


July 


' 1 1 


ic '.=i3 


lo P. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




2 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


20 




8 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




24 P. S. Inf. 


( let. 


5 


304 


9 P. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




amo, Cuba 


Oct. 


27 




12 P. S. Inf. 


July 


30 


:62 


16 U. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


10 


282 


3 I". S. Vol. Inf. 


Sept. 


25 




23 Kan. \'. Inf. 


Nov. 


3 




Signal Corps P. S. 


V. Aug. 


5 


jss 


25 P. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


203 


I v. S. Inf. 


luly 


12 


286 


2 .Ma>s. \ . Inf. 


Aug. 


>5 




9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


4 




33 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 


287 


2 Mass. \ . Inf. 


Aug. 


10 




g P. S. V. 


Aug, 


12 




P. S. Army 






286 


2 L'. S. Inf. 


July 


2 




I 111. V. Inf. 


July 


20 




K) P. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




I P. S. Cav. 


June 


24 


- ti 


10 P. S. Cav. 


July 


I 




13 U. S. Inf. 


July 


1 


II'' 


25 P. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


203 


P. .^. \'. Sig. Corps 


Aug. 


12 


285 


9 Mass. \ . Inf. 


July 


2.> 


^>7 


2 Mass. \ . Inf. 


Aug. 


11 




7 P. .^. Inf. 


July 


:i 




22 I S. Inf. 


luly 


I 


. i> 



440 



lln^c.1 of tbe if alien 



Name 


Rank C 


lompany 


Regiment 


Date of Death 


Page 


Siilton, Edward 


^\'agoner 


t; 


9 U. S. Cav. 


July 


30 




Swartz, Charles F. 


Private 


li 


I U. S. Cav. 


July 


9 


254 


Sweeney, William A. 


Private 


H 


2 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


21 




Swift, Thoir.as 


I'rivate 


E 


24 U. S. Inf. 


July 


5 




Swetnam, John W. 


Private 


B 


I U. S. V. Cav. 


July 


21 


40, 144, 


Symons, John 


Private 


E 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


147 


Taft, Frederick B. 


Private 


C 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


luly 


14 


255 


Taft, Millard F. 


Private 


H 


3 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


19 


276 


Taliaferro, Charles L. 


Private 


H 


25 V. S. Inf. 


July 


30 




Tarner, C. E. 


Corporal 


L 


8 Ohio \'. Inf. 






95 


Tate, Eugene 


Corporal 


A 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


20 




Tatlick, Stephen 


Blacksmith 


I 


I U. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


7 




Taurman, (i. 


Private 




U. S. M. C. 


June 


13 


58 


Taylor, Alfred H. 


Private 


H 


21 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 


288 


Taylor, Bernard J. 


Civilian 






Aug. 


15 




Taylor, Joseph 


Private 


H 


9 V. S. V. Inf. 


Dec. 


II 




Tennant, Dallas P. 


Private 


K 


34 Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 


88 


Temperton, Joseph \V. 


Private 


B 


3 L. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


13 




Tervehn, Albert 


Private 


I 


20 L'. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


5 


25,76 


Thoman, Charles 


Sergeant 


A 


8 Ohio V. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 




Thomas, John 


Private 


M 


9 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


22 


282 


Thomas, William 


Private 


K 


8 III. V. Inf. 


Nov. 


27 




Thompson, Maryland 


Private 


G 


10 L'. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


10 


290 


Thorburn, Oren 


Private 


B 


34 Mich. W Inf. 


Aug. 


4 


2S8 


Thorn, Charles 


Private 


li 


6 V. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


28 


280 


Thome, William B. 


Sergeant 


B 


7 V. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


266 


Thornton, Andrew 


Private 


(] 


9 U. S. Inf. 


July 


29 


298 


Thyne, Jr., John 


Private 


L 


2 Mass. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


6 




Tick, Luis 


Private 


C 


Si Mich. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


14 


290 


Timannus, Frederick 


Private 


E 


7 U. S Inf. 


July 


I 


188 


Tolene, Irene 


Contract Nurse 




Sept. 


25 




Tompkinson, Albert 


Private 


E 


21 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


96 


Tower, F.llen M. 


Contract Nurse 




Dec. 


9 




True, William H. 


Sergeant 


C 


9 U. S. Inf. 


Sept. 


3 


256 


Turman, Reuben S. 


2 Lieut. 




6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


4 


254 


Tuttle, Reuben S. 


Private 


C 


24 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Tyler, Frank W. 


I'rivate 


I 


2 U. 6. Vol. Inf. 


Oct. 


I 




Tyner, Dr. E. S. 


Acting .\sst. 


Surg. 




Sept. 


8 




Undergrave, Silas 


Private 


H 


2 Mass. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


I 




Underwood, Asa B. 


Private 


A 


2 v. S. Art. 


July 


I 





•fln^ci ot tbc jrallcu 



til 



Name 
Vandenboom, I'eter F. 
Van Slyke, AUie P. 
Van \'alkenburg, Lawrence Private 
Venable, Henry 
Vesper, Paul L. 
Viberts, Charles 
Villavarso, Jerome 
^'incent, Paul 
^'ine, Frank M. 
Vivian, Francis J. 

Wabur, 



Waggoner, William K. 
Wagner, Louis l\. 
Walker, William 
Walker, William H. 
Wallace, Edmund K. 
Wallace, Joseph L. 
W^aUers, F. S. Y. 
Walthus, William 
Wamble, Charles 
Wansboro, Thomas A. 
Ward, Roy E. 
W^are, Benjamin F. 
Warfle, Dennis 
Warner, ^L J. 
Warren, John E. 
Washinglon, Philip A., Jr. 
Waters, William J. 
Weber, Leonard 
Webster, Alfred 
Weiker, Leonard L. 
Weil, Julius B. 
Weis, Ambrose 
Weisheit, Fred 
Welch, Thomas IL 
Wert, Frank S. 
Weiherill, Alexander N. 
Wheeler, James Woodbury 
Whipple, George E. 
White, Edward Seymour 
White, Wdliam L. 



Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of Dea 


th Puge 


Private 


1. 


34 Mich. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 


^74 


Private 


A 


33 Mich. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


17 




Private 


A 


4 L. S. Jnf. 


July 


1 


264. 291 


Private 


A 


y L. S. Cav. 


July 


24 




Private 


ii 


2 Ma-ss. Vol, Inf. 


Aug. 


10 




Corporal 


I 


I 111. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


26 


r- 1 


Private 


1. 


9 L. S. Vol. Inf 


Sept. 


>5 




Private 


1) 


9 V. S. Vol. Inf. 


Sept. 


29 




Wagoner 


1-: 


9 r. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


17 


290 


Private 


1) 


34 Mich. \ol. Inf. 


July 


3' 


201 


PrivaU- 


11 


ii Mich. Vol. Inf. 






2S6 


Private 


I'. 


I . S. \'. Sig. Corps 


Sept. 


26 




Private 


V. 


13 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


4 




Private 


A 


9 L. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


G 


5 L. S. Vol. Inf. 


Nov. 


2 




Corporal 


A 


6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


10,114. 115 


Private 


M 


9 Ma^s. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


"» 




Musician 


(i 


4 L. S. Inf. 


luly 


I 


199 


Civilian 






Aug. 


22 


299 


I'livate 


E 


24 L. S. Inf. 


July 


26 


2S9 


2 Lieut. 




7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


1S4 


Private 


11 


1 6 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


M 


5 L . S. Vol. Inf 


< >ct. 


s 




Corporal 


l-- 


lo I . S. Inf. 


July 


4 


2.>4 




B 


22 Inf. 


July 


I 


JCVS 


Private 


.\ 


3 I . S. Inf. 


July 


1 




Sergeant 


I 


9 L . S. Vol. InL 


" tcl. 


I 




Priv*ate 


i; 


S L. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


10 


2S0 


Private 


l; 


17 L". S. Inf. 


July 


1 


I $9 


Private 


A 


12 U.S. Inf. 


July 


20 


262 


Artiticer 


II 


S ( >hio Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


I 




Private 


C, 


13 U. S. Inf. 


July 


1 


'>4 


Private 




7 1-. S. Inf. 


/.Ug. 


6 




Private 


A 


21 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


(,'r 


Private 


L 


9 Mass. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


'3 




Private 


Ban<l 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


1 


|S!> 


Captain 




L. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


III. 112 


Private 


C 


2 Mass. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


3 




Corporal 


M 


2 Mass. Vol. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


2».9 


Private 


C 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


1 


IS9 


Corporal 


E 


in I S. Cav. 


June 


24 


241 



442 



lln^c.1 of tbe jfallcn 



Name 
Wliiting, Charles 
Whiting, Edwin W. 
Whitson, Irwin 
Whiiten, George J. 
Whilworth, Burt 
Wikofi, fharles A. 
Wilhord, Ward A. 
Williams, George 
Williams, Joseph 
Williams, John P. 
^\■illiams, Robert 
Williams, William 
Wilson, Alexander 
Wilson, Dudley D. 
Wilson, John 
Wilson, John 
Wilson, Silas T. 
Wingerter, Edward J. 
\\'inn, Alfred 
Wischman, William 
Witt, Louis 
Wood, Elmer G. 
Wood, William M. 
Wren, Charles 
Wright, John C. 
Wright, Thomas 

Young, CJebhard 
\'oung, Warren Ilarlen 
Young, William D. S. 
Your/ee, Eugene N. 

Zigler, Robert M. 
Zitck, Joseph 
Zoubeck, Paul 



Rank 


Company 


Regiment 


Date of 


Dea 


th Page 


Private 


G 


3 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


II 


285 


Private 


A 


I 111. \ol. Inf. 


Aug. 


8 


272. 278 


I'rivate 


G 


lo I". S. Cav. 


Aug. 


28 


290 


Private 


E 


7 I'. S. Inf. 


July 


24 




Private 


G 


8 111. V. Inf. 


Oct. 


31 




Colonel 




22 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


129, 132 


Private 


B 


8 Oh V. Inf. 


Aug. 


15 


297 


Private 


L 


8 U. S. V. Inf. 


Sept. 


25 




Private 


I 


9 U. S. \ . Inf. 


Oct. 


15 




Sergeant 


F 


24 U. S. li.f. 


July 


I 


109 


Private 


11 


3 L. S. V. Inf. 


Dec. 


4 




Ambulance Driver 




Sept. 


17 




I'livate 


L 


9 U. S. Y. Inf. 


Sept, 


18 


92 


Corporal 


G 


8 ( )hio \'. Inf 


Aug. 


7 




Private 


I 


9 U. S. Y. Inf 


Sept. 


22 


289 


Private 


I 


lo L'. S. Cav. 


Aug. 


9 




Sergeant 


F 


12 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


190 


Private 


1 


8 Ohio Y. Inf. 


Aug. 


2 




Private 


L 


9 L. S. Y. Inf. 


Sept. 


30 




Private 


F 


2 U. S. Cav. 


July 


25 




Private 


Band 


7 U. S. In!. 


July 


23 




Wagoner 


G 


I8 V. S. Inf. 


July 


I 


121 


2 Lieut. 


(; 


12 U. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


12 


269 


Piivate 


G 


8 C. S. Inf. 


Aug. 


7 




Civilian 






Aug. 


ly 




Private 


A 


13 f. S. Inf 


July 


I 


118 


Corporal 


G 


22 U. S. Inf. 


July 


I 




Private 


I 


I 111. V. Inf. 


Aug. 


17 




Sergeant 


E 


71 N. Y. Y. Inf. 


July 


29 


261 


Private 


D 


7 U. S. Inf. 


July 


26 




Private 


I 


16 U. S. Ini". 


Aug. 


22 


292 


Private 


E 


2 U. S. Inf. 


July 


18 




Private 


K 


I 111. W Inf. 


Aug. 


4 


286 



U.M<.NO\VX Dl AD : pp. 197, 209, 251, 255, 266, 267, 286, 289, 293, 295, 297. 



General Index 



Page 

Adjutant Cjener.il i''^7t -o5 

Aguadores 2Sj 

Aguadores River . 104, 131, 137, 13S 

Aguadores Road . . . . loi, 104, 126, 1 28 

Aguierre, Lieut. -Cul 2I<) 

Alger, Camp 375 

Alger, (ien. R. A., 11, 17, 376, See Sec. 
of War. 

Allen, Capt 354 

Alto Coronal 171. i^' 

American fleet 43 

Allies, Cuban 3'5 

Amputations 40*^ 

Ants, Cutting 85 

Army and Navy 1 25 

Regulars 410-415 

Artillery, Second 217 

Astwood, Rev. H. C. C i5 

Augustine, Jr., Lieut. Joseph IL, 122, 252, 253 

I'aniboo "9 

Bamboo, Soldiers Cot of 296 

Banister, Major Surgeon William 1'... 255, 3(15 
366, 405 

Barbon, Lieut. -Col 3-7- 329 

Barbour, Maj 35° 

Barnett. Lieut. L. T 92 

liarrett, l>r 3^7' 373 

Barricades ^'7 

Bates, Gen. John C. . . . 95, 103, 163, 179 

Barton, Miss Clara ''5' 37- 

Battlefields, Santiago '5' '7 

Battle Plain J05 

Berkley, Lieut. Hugh 9°. MS 

Bernard, Lieut. John J 209 

Blockhouse 64 

Blockhouse, San Juan Ridge 72 

Blockhouse at Siboney 44 

Bloody Bend . 99, loi, 107, ico. 117. 169 
246, 315 



PoBC 
Boat Club House, Santingo . -"4 

Bombax Ceiba, Surrender Tree . 9' 

Bon.sal. Stephen .... 97. '5'. '^A> 3'»- 

Brooklyu, U. S. S S^. 5- 

Brooks, Miss, Hospital Nurse ^o'' 

Brown, Chaplain, Rough Ri(ler> .... 240 

Brown, Theodore "^ 

r.urying: Marines' Hill, 49; al Sea, 5I ; 
Burial Cards, 310; Sectional Cofttns, 
311 ; Soldiers Method of Marking 
Graves, Chap. H; I'oreign Nations. 
305 ; in Santiago. 344 ; Crcnialion, 
360, 361 



Cabanas 

Calentura fever .... 

Campaign hat 

Caney . 30, 35. 104. 103, 175. 

324. 354 

Canosa Fort 

Capron, Captain .Mlyn, Battery, 
Capron, Captain Allyn K..Jr., 

412 

Castillo, Gen 219 

Cavalry Division . . 107. loS. 
Cemetery, Santiago 

Cervera's lleet 

Chaffee, Gen. A. R 

Chaplain . . . 240. 3o'». 375- 
Chapmaj;, Carlton T. 
Chester, Captain CM.. . . 

Chickamauga 

Church, Lieut. J. R , Surgeon 
Churcliman, Col. Caleb . . . 
Churchman, Lieut. ( lark . . 
Civil Hospital. Santi.igo, 3CI, 

35» 
Clim: e, Cuban . ■ l*^. 353- 
Clothing. Soldier- . 
Club, Nauiic:i 



229, 



171. 
224, 

o«7 
131. 



K'3- 



34 
334. 



. . 217 

335. 364 
28. 30 

251. 3«6 

69, 137 
173. 412 
232. 240 

,320. 3^' 

13S, 140 

. . 296 

43 

I7«. 2'o 

406, 407 

49 

52 

■392 

232, 236 

. . . 192 

. 173. "O" 

344. 34^ 



3*^4, 378 

363 

6s. 



444 



General ifuDev 



Page 

Coffins, for burial 312 

Colored Soldiers 393, 397 

Colors, The L. S 412 

Columbia, U. S. S 297 

Cook, Capt 50 

Cooks, Soldiers 403 

Cookoo, Brush 224 

Congress 379; 410 

Converse, Mr. John H 373, 3S1 

Crane, Col 109 

Cubans, Cuba . . 143, 165, 212, 219, 220 
240, 272, 345, 346, 395 

Cuban Soldiers 43, 255 

Cuban Dead 317 

Cuban Fever t^t^^ 

Cuban Flag 43 

Cuban Allies 31c 

Dai(]uiri 63, 217 

Danforlh, Asst. Surg. Harry \V. . 253, 406 
Davis, Richard Harding . . . 232, 235, 237 

Davis, I.. Clarke 237 

Dawson, Tilden W 233 

Dead, Burial, 344; al Sea, 51 ; Spanish 
Cremated, 360, 361 ; Death Rate, 
408; Graves, Decorating, Chap. IT. 

Deporting Fifth Army Corps 342 

]3e La Rocca 63 

Dodge, Capt. Charles 284 

Dolores, Plaza of 68 

Dolphin, L. S. S 49 

Doves, Cuban (Zenaida Zenaida) .... 224 
Draper, Adjutant Herbert L , U. S. M. C. 52 

Drum, Capt. John .119 

Duffield, Gen 165 

Eaton, Capt., U. S. N 9 

Kdgar, Surgeon, V. S. M. C, 54, 55, 
Printed erroneously " Eagan," 47 

Eighth U. S. Infantry 177 

Eighth Illinois Infantry 398 

Eighth Ohio Infantry 274, 277 

Ellis, Chief Yeoman, U. S. N. 50, 58, 315 



Page 

El Morro Castle 63 

ElPozoHill 255, 319, 351 

Entanglements, 221 ; Wire, 24, 64, 67 
El Viso (see Stone Fort) . . 164, 169, 181 
Escario, Gen. Frederico . . 165, 324, 329 
Ewers, Gen 107, 120 

Fairman, Assistant Hospital Steward . . 271 

Ferial, Gen 322 

Field, Lieut. Charles H 209 

Field Hospitals (see Hospitals) .... 340 
Fifth Army Corps . 14, 45, 68, 104, 307, 309 

320, 330, y.i, 341, 342, 346, 366, 387 
Fifth U. S. Infantry . 68, 92, 167, 250, 349 

First-aid Dressings 248 

P'irst Brigade 107, 1O3 

First U. S. Cavalry, 81, 107, 112, 140, 141, 

142, 201, 226, 317 
First Division Hosiiilal . . . 123, 137, 250 

First Illinois Infantry 274 

P'irst Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders) . 147 
Fish, Sergeant Hamilton .... 224, 235 

Fischer, E., Yeoman, U. .S. N 52 

Franca, Lieut. Nicolas 211, 316 

Force, Major Albert .... 37, 80, 81, 141 

Fornance, Capt. James 252 

Fourth U. S. Infantry . . . 175, 198, 203 

Fox, Mr. John 238, 391 

Funerals (see ISurial) 344 

Garcia, Gen 165, 217, 322 

Gatling Guns 163 

(ieneral Field Hospital, 246, 269; Sibo- 

ney, 282, 287 
(libbs, John B., Acting Assistant Surgeon, 44, 

47, 56, 5« 

Gonzales, Capt 16, 271, 312 

Good, Sergeant-Major . . . 50, 53, 60, 413 

Gould, Mis.s Helen 372 

Graham, F. R., Hospital Steward, U. S. N. 52 

Grant, Mrs. Gen. U. S 372 

Grimes' Battery 137, 319 

Guantanamo Bay 41, 42, 315 



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44r. 



Page 

Guasima Tree f><), 222 

Guasimas, Las, Chap. \'II I, loS, 217,225, 317 
Gurney, Lieut. John .\ 122, 124 

Hamilton, Lieut. -Col., James M. . . 141, 151 

Hamilton, Lieut., 5th U. S. 1 350 

Hammond, Mr. Halsey 381 

Hamment, Mr 143 

Harbach, Lieut. -Col 72 

Hart, Rev. P. J., Post Chaplain .... 252 

Harris, Quartermaster, W. H 47 

Hastings, Camp 3^1 

Havarcl, Col. Valery, Chief Surgeon, 14, 250, 

267, 270, 336 
Hawkins, Gen. H. S. . Si, 102, 103, lot), 114 

Hawkins' Brigade I43 

Heffner, Harry 234 

Hobson, Lieut., U. S. N. . . . 90, loS, 270 

Hospitals 376,414,415 

Hospital Cooks . 402 

Hospital Corps 245,309 

Hospital, General Field 319 

Hospital Service 245 

Hospital Tents 248, 339 

Hospital Workers 406 

Hotchkiss Guns 220 

Howell, Capt >86 

Humanity, War for 33 

Huntingdon, Lieut. -Col., U. S. M. C, 45, 47, 

55 
Hymns for Soldiers 3^9 

Illinois Volunteers 87 

Immunes, Fifth 249 

Iroquois, U. S. S 74 

Jones, Chaplain, C. S. N 5^ 

Kennan, Mr. George 372 

Kent, Major ( ".en. J. Ford, 71, loi, 102, 103, 
104, 107, 108, 163 

Kent's Division 138.413 

Keifter, Surgeon 339 

Kettle Hill . . . 70, 7', 13S, 139- 142, 413 



Page 



Kiikpalrick, l.icut. T. J. 



La Garde, Hr. Louis, Maji>r->urj;tMn, 337, 

393. 406 

La Gran I'iedra 7° 

Lafayette Post, G. .A. K 112 

LaMotte, Major-Surgeon 406 

Las Guasimas (see Guasimas). 

Lawton, Major-Gen. Henry W. . loS, 163. 

179, 197, 207, 217, 219, 230, 257. 335, 

347. 348, 349 
Lawton's Division . . . 108, 165, 169. 177 

Lee, Capt. Arthur '73' '85 

Leininger, Capt. John A 274,277 

I.ejeune 1st Lieut. John A 52 

Lesser, Red Cross Dr 408 

Letters, Soldiers 3^5 

Lewis, Mr. Henry II, . .212 

Lewis, Lieut. Louis H 125,126 

Linares, Lieut. -Gen 22S 

Liscum, Lieut. -Col. F.. H 107,120 

Littermen, Hospital Cori)S 247 

Long, Secretary .... 45 

Losses, American .\rmy, at Guasimas, 226 ; 

San Juan, 107, 109 ; Spanish, 321, 329; 

Cuban, 328 
Ludinglon, <^>uartermastcr-Gen. . .186,254 

Ludlow, Gen 163, 177. 335 

Ludlow's lirigade 173,210 

Ma.he Vieja 94. «03 

Malarial Fever 34° 

Mango Tree 69 

Manzanillo 3^° 

J/,7;M//.<J»/, U. S. S 49.58 

Marking Soldiers' Graves • 3°5 

M.-irkley. M.ijor, Ninll L. S. L . . 393.394 

Marine Corps Ch.np. nL4i3 

Marines' Hill, (.;uanlan.imo Pay 4'. 49 

Marsh II, Kdward, War Correspon<lent . 237 
Massacliusells. Second Vol. Inf , 175; 

.\rmy \ Navy Aid Association, 367,373 

Mauser Pullet 4o8 

, .)/,7i'. The 373 



44(; 



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Page 

Maysi, Cape 4I163 

■Medical Department . . 245, 252, 307, 309, 
364, 376, 378, 399- 400, 402 

Medical Staff 376 

Merrimai 64, 334 

Michie, Lieut. Dennis M 114 

Michigan N'olunteers S4 

Miles, Col 163, 175, 179 

Miles' Brigade 173 

^Sliley, Lieut. -Col 106, 177 

Miles, Maj.-Gen 322, 323 

Militarism 410 

Mills, Capt 222 

Montauk Point 2S5, 364 

Morrison, Capt. T. \V 133, 138 

Morris, Charles 51 

Mono Castle 85, t^i,';,, 398 

Mt. Gretna 380 

Miiller, Lieut. Jose y Tejerio . . 227, 323 

Municipal Government 347 

McCalla, Capt., U. S. X 45, 46 

McCalla, Camp 42, 45, 57 

"McCawley, Capt. (Maj.) Charles L., 

52, 55. 56 
McClernand, E. J., Lieut. -Col., Asst. Adj.- 

Gen. Fifth Corps 65 

McCook, Dr. H. C, Chaplain . . 348, 366 

TilcCook, Col. John J 3S1 

^McCook, Lieut. Paul II 92, 93 

McCorkle, Lieut. II. L. . . 175, 200, 201 
McCormick, Surgeon L'. S. S. J'a7t//ur . 55 
McGartlin, Michael, (^. M. Sergt. ... 89 
McLean, Mrs. Eugene, Cor. Sec. Woman's 

War Relief Association ..... 372 

National Relief Commission, 9, 338, 366, 373 

375. 376, 380, 381, 397 
Naval and Military .\cademies . . . .411 
Nautical Hospital . . . 271, 294, 295, 312 

Neary, Lieut. William C 295 

Neville, Lieut., U. S. M, C 53 

Newkirk, Asst. -Surg 365 

Ninth Cavalry 141, 142 

Ninth Infantry L'. .'>. .\ 107 



Page 

Ninth Massachusetts Vol. Tnf 274 

Ninth U. S. \'ols 71, 78, 91 

Nurses, Hospital .... 337 

O/hrtle, U. S. S 317 

Oregoti, U. S. S 58 

Ord, Lieut. J. G 81, 82 

Outlook, The 372 

Packard, -Miss, A Hospital Nurse . . . 297 

Pack Trains 339 

Page, Col., Third U. S. Inf. . . . 72,74 

Panther, U. S. S 45, 50, 55 

Prairie, The, V . S. S 52, 58 

Pearson, Col. E. P 95, 102, 107 

Perez, Gen 322 

Pico del rur(|uino 70 

Plants, Cuban 104 

Ploude, Edw 95, 98 

Plummer, Capt. Edward 264 

Pond, The San Juan 73 

Popular Songs, Soldiers 395 

Pozo Road ." . 137 

President, The. Wni. MrKinley, 11, 12, 13,33 
75, 278, 306, 342 

Prisoners, Spanish 352, 354, 356 

Punta Gorda 334 

(^)uartermaster's Department (see Lud- 

dington ; Rhodes) . . . 16,267,307,312 
(^uintana, Raphael 21 1 

Radford, Lieut., C. S. N 55 

Rains lo, 340 

Ralp, Sergt. NN'alker 155 

Randolph, Gen. Wallace 339 

Ramiro, Sjianish Capt 327 

Raymond, Mrs. Charles H 372 

Reconcentrados 344 

Red Cross U. S. Hospital . . 246,247,402 

Red Cross Society *^5, 37' 

Regulars, Army and Navy 410, 412, 413 

K-'ina Mercedes 64, 334 

Reina Mercedes Barracks 270 



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447 



Page ' 

Relief C'oinmissi(jn (see Natl. Relf t'cjin.) 33S 

339. 3^0 

Relief Work Among Soldiers 371 

Religious Services 3^7 

Repatriation 356, 361 

y^'c'so/itfe, I'. S. S 47, 23i, 338 

Reeves, Lieut 95, 97 

Rhodes, .Mr D II. . 16, 17, 92, 95, 1 17, 128 

147, 187, 206, 254, 264, 265, 267, 295, 317 

Rios, Cuban Gen 325 

Riter, Capt., L'. S. N 45. 5° 

Roads, Cuban »6, 351 

Robeson, Maj. -Surgeon, U. S. A. ... 270 

Rode 91 

Roosevelt, Col. Theodore . 90, 106, 107, 142 

145, 147, 224, 234, 237, 240, 391 
Rough Riders . 71, 10 , 107, 140, 142. 145 

201, 220, 223, 227, 239, 391, 412 

Round Robin 34^ 

Roumanian, The, Funeral Ship . . . . 16 

Royal Palm (C.)reodoxia regia) 221 

Rowell, Capt. Charles W 96 

Rowland, Trooper 234 

Rubin, Spanish Cieneral 227 

Ruiz, Col. Manuel 326,327 

Runways in Trenches . 271 

Russell, Sergt. Rough Riders 234 

San luan, Hattlefield and Ridge, Chap. IV, 
63; Ranoraniic Views of, opp. 21; 
Field Described, 69, 71, 94 ; Graves 
on, Chap. II; Plain of. 70; Map 
of, 73 ; River, 70, loi, 104, 13S; 
Heights. 103 ; Cemetery, 153; Plain 
of, 101 ; \'iews, opp. 41 

San Miguel Road 205 

Santiago City, Situation and harbor (map), 
66 ; Valley, 69 ; Province of, 60 ; 
After Surrender, 343 ; Distress of. 
341 ; (jen. Wood in. 345 ; Improve- 
ment in, 349 

Sampson. Rear-Admiral, 43, 45, 51, i<>5, 217 

Hl)^ 334 
San Carlos Club 39^ 



312 

• ^74 



Pate 
.Sanches, Cuban General . 317 

San Juan, Wounded at, 246, 251 ; ."^l.anish 

I'orces at, 324 
Sater, Lieui. W. .\., I . ^ A 11^. 120 

Schall, Gen ''• 

Schley, Rear- Admiral, U. >. ^ " 

Second Hrigade, Fifth Corps . i' j. 
Second Division, Fifth ('or|>s 103, 

Seconil Massachusetts \'ol. Inf. 

Second Pennsylvania Infantry 3''8 

Secretary of War (see -Mger), 11, 13, 30*', 

348 

Second U. .S. Infantry 102 

Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers 9 
Seguranca, U. S. Transport . . . 347- 3^5 
Seventy first New Vork Vol. Inf. 79, 107, 274 

Sevilla 

Second U. S. Infantry .... 
Seventeenth C S. Infantry . 
Shafter, Maj. -Gen. . . 13, 91, 

230, 255, 335, y^fi, 343. 3= 

Sharpshooters 

Shipp, 1st Lieut. Win. K. . . 
Siboney 63, 69, 137, 219. 282, 2S4, 2S7, 337, 
i3^, 392. 406 
I Sierra Maestra ... IL 43- ^'3- ^9 

Signal Corps. Halloon <f . . MO 

I Sisters of Charity ■ ■ 3°' 

j Sixteenth U. S. Infantry 107 

Sixth U. S. Cavalry 3". '4». '42 

' Sixth I". S. Infantry . . 107. lio. n;. 209 
Smith, Lieut. Wm. II. i»i. '53 

Socapa Batter)' . . • 334 

Soldiers' Letters . . 383 

Soldiers' Hymns and Songs 389 

Spaniards. Spanish .\rmy . 52, 72, 104, 108, 

142, 170. 222, 3I<', 320. 353 
.Spanish Blockhouse • 44. 64, "2 

Spanish Prisoners . 345- 35* 

Spanish Defences . . 25. 169 

Spanis.. Force • • 228 

Spanish Guerillas >'• 224 

Spanish lx)sses ... . • 220 

Spanish Military Hospital ;5o. 352 



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St. Louis, I'. S. S 46 

" Star Spangled Banner,'" Song .... 395 
Stone Fort, Caney . . . 164, 171, 177, 317 

Sueno 255 

Sumner, Brig.-(jen. Samuel S., Chap. W, 104, 
106, 230 

Sunken Road 102, 138 

Sunday-schools 391 

Summers, Major-Surgeon T. ( ) 336 

Surgeons (see Medical Department), 245, 376 

Surrender, The 323, 333 

Surrender Tree (i)'('w/^<?.v (v/^<7) . 91,93 

Sutter, Gustavus E 210 

Swain, Wm. J- and Mrs 366 

Swift, Chaplain, U. S. A 133 

Tabernacle Presbyterian Church of Phila- 
delphia I'S 

Tenth Cavalry . . 107, 141. 142, 226, 317 

Tenth Infantry 102, 259 

Texas, The U. S. S 46, 55, 56 

Theaker, Gen 262 

Third Brigade 107, 163 

Third U. S. Cavalry 140, 142 

Third Regiment U. S. Infantry, 72, 84, 177, 

179, 208 
Thirteenth Infantry . . 107, 109, 1 17, 129 
Thirty-fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, 88, 
260, 274 

Thomas, Camp 375 

Thomas, George W 373 

Thomas, Co.. Enriques . . . . 43, 44, 315 
Toral, (ien. Jose . 91, 228, 229, 323, 333 
Transports, 64, 74, 321, 363; Spanish, 359 

Trees, Cuban 9, 69, 138, 221 

Turman, Lieut. Reuben S 254 

Twelfth C. S. Infantry, 171, 173, 177, 192, 

193, 196 
Twenty-first L'. S. Infantry, 96, 97, 102, 103 
Twenty-fourth U. S. Infantry, 107, 109, 123, 

283, 284, 303, 392, 393 
Twenty-second U. S. Infantry, 96, 129, 177, 

207, 210 
Twenty-fifth U. S. Infantry .... 200, 204 



Page 

Twentieth U. S. Infantry 179 

Typhoid Fever 375 

Uniforms, Spanish 352 

Underclothes 352 

Vara Del Rey, Gen. . . . 104, 165, 167,212 

J'izcaya, Spanish Warship 50 

Voluntary Aid Societies 371 

J'lihan, U. S. S 52 

Walworth, Aliss Reubena H 372 

Walworth, Mrs. Ellen Hardin 372 

Wansboro, Lieut. Thomas A. . 1S3, 184, 185 
War Department (see Secretary of War, 
Medical Dept., Ludington). 

Waring, Col 35° 

Watson, Commodore, U. S. N 43 

Weapons 409 

Wetherill, Capt. A. M., L'. S. A. . in, 112 
Wheeler, Major Gen. Joseph . . 71. 91, loS, 

163, 217, 219.228, 241, 297, 355 
Wlieeler, Miss Annie M. . . 297, 404, 405 

Whiting, E. W 272 

Whitney, Casper, war correspondent . .173 
Wire Entanglement (see Entanglement) . 24 

Wise, Capt., U. S. N 397 

Wise, Lieut., U. S. A 315, 405 

Wikoff, Camp 364, 372 

Wikoff, Col. Charles . . 102, 107, 119, 129 
Woman's National War Relief Associa- 
tion 372 

Women Nurses, for Soldiers . 399, 400, 401 
Wood, Maj.-Gen. Leonard 14, 107, 137, 220 
238, 251, 307, 343, 345, 346 

Worth, Lieut. -Col. W. S 107, 1 19 

Wounded 251, 408 

Yah; U. S. S 13, 301, 397 

Yunkee, U. S. S 45 

Yellow Fever, 283, 302, 341, 367, 406, 414 
Young, Gen. S. B. M. 219, 225, 229, 231, 238 
Young Men's Christian Association, 379, 3S3, 
3S6, 390 





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